How to say “condition” 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 Indonesian, where hal is the 64th most used word.
- Albanian gjendje situation, state, condition #613
- Arabic صالح in good condition, sound, whole #1,175
- Armenian պայման #1,136
- Bengali করার agreement, condition, promise, stipulation #69
- Bosnian stanju condition, state #912
- Bulgarian състояние state, condition #809
- Catalan condicions condition, a quality or state essential for… #1,909
- Chinese 病情 state of an illness; condition of a patient #2,356
- Croatian stanju condition, state #942
- Dutch omstandigheden circumstance, condition #1,831
- English back To or in a previous condition or place #83
- Esperanto stato condition, state #1,529
- Finnish kuntoon #1,885
- French état state, condition #562
- Galician condicións #879
- Georgian მდგომარეობა condition, shape, state, status, situation,… #909
- German zustand condition; state #1,776
- Greek κατάσταση state, condition #511
- Hebrew תנאי a condition, an antecedent: the first half of… #1,637
- Hindi हाल state, condition #900
- Hungarian állapotban state, condition #2,038
- Icelandic ástand state, condition #1,504
- Indonesian hal circumstance, state, condition #64
- Italian situazione situation, position, condition, circumstances #642
- Korean 상태 condition, status #1,293
- Lithuanian būklė state, condition #1,809
- Macedonian состојба state, condition #718
- Malayalam വ്യവസ്ഥ term, condition #1,036
- Norwegian stand condition, order, state #1,144
- Persian حال condition; state #112
- Portuguese vontade will; the condition of feeling like or… #709
- Russian состояние state, status, condition #1,698
- Serbian stanju condition, state #857
- Slovak stav state, condition, status #726
- Slovenian stanje #511
- Spanish condiciones #2,176
- Swedish tillstånd condition, state #1,182
- Tagalog pakiramdam condition; state #679
- Tamil நிலை condition, state, situation, status #540
- Telugu పరిస్థితి state, situation, condition #319
- Turkish durum situation; status, condition #375
- Urdu درست in good condition; unbroken, in working order #299
- Vietnamese chứng a symptom; condition; indication #351
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.