How to say “computer” in 43 languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
It is commonest in Tagalog, where virus is the 292nd most used word.
- Afrikaans rekenaar #818
- Albanian kompjuter #1,672
- Arabic حاسوب #2,183
- Basque ordenagailu #1,230
- Bengali কম্পিউটার #847
- Bosnian virus computer virus #1,765
- Bulgarian компютър #1,700
- Catalan ordinador #1,236
- Croatian računalo #1,606
- Czech počítač #1,710
- Danish computer #1,436
- Dutch computer to use the computer #1,069
- English data A representation of information in a computer… #2,008
- Esperanto komputilo #2,325
- Estonian arvuti #1,154
- French ordinateur a computer, a computing device #1,294
- German computer #1,193
- Hebrew מחשב #1,248
- Hindi कंप्यूटर #1,347
- Icelandic tölvu #1,959
- Indonesian komputer computer, a programmable electronic device… #938
- Italian computer #1,068
- Korean 게임 game, especially computer games #574
- Latvian dators #2,249
- Lithuanian kompiuteris #1,491
- Macedonian компјутер #1,343
- Malay komputer #726
- Malayalam കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ #1,255
- Persian کامپیوتر #2,417
- Polish komputer #2,082
- Portuguese programa computer instructions #817
- Romanian computer #2,153
- Russian компьютер #1,966
- Serbian kompjuter #1,900
- Slovak počítač #848
- Slovenian računalnik #538
- Spanish computadora #2,159
- Swedish dator a computer #1,541
- Tagalog virus computer virus #292
- Tamil கணினி #665
- Telugu కంప్యూటర్ #609
- Turkish bilgisayar #1,131
- Urdu کمپیوٹر #308
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.