How to say “contract” in 36 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 Arabic, where واثق is the 602nd most used word.
- Afrikaans kontrak #954
- Arabic واثق to agree, to contract #602
- Armenian պայմանագիր agreement, contract #771
- Bosnian ugovor #1,247
- Bulgarian договор #1,558
- Catalan contracte #2,023
- Chinese 合同 contract; agreement #1,073
- Croatian ugovor #1,239
- Czech smlouvu #1,848
- Danish kontrakt #2,256
- Dutch contract #1,796
- Esperanto kontrakton agreement, contract #2,377
- Estonian leping contract, pact #1,587
- Finnish sopimus agreement, arrangement, contract #1,468
- French contrat #1,374
- Galician contrato #1,465
- German vertrag contract, agreement #1,846
- Greek συμβόλαιο contract, policy #1,773
- Hebrew הסכם An agreement, contract, accord #1,460
- Hindi अनुबंध contract, agreement #1,563
- Icelandic samningur contract, deal #2,088
- Indonesian kontrak #1,545
- Korean 계약 #1,437
- Latvian līgums #1,981
- Norwegian avtale agreement, contract, appointment #677
- Persian قرارداد #1,121
- Portuguese contrato #1,848
- Romanian contract #1,903
- Russian контракт contract, agreement #2,456
- Serbian ugovor #1,193
- Slovak zmluva #1,708
- Slovenian pogodba #1,193
- Spanish contrato contract, agreement #1,669
- Swedish avtal agreement, contract #1,722
- Tagalog kontrata #775
- Ukrainian контракт #1,852
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.