How to say “course” in 44 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 German, where ja is the 17th most used word.
- Albanian mësim #1,153
- Arabic خلال during, in the course of #122
- Armenian ընթացք movement, course, development #775
- Basque ikastaro educational course #1,459
- Bosnian naravno of course #128
- Catalan curs course, route, path #2,227
- Chinese 當然 of course; surely #389
- Croatian naravno of course #137
- Czech no certainly, indeed, of course #46
- Danish selvfølgelig of course, naturally, sure #237
- Dutch lopen course, duration #461
- English course Ellipsis of of course #214
- Esperanto kompreneble of course #242
- Estonian muidugi of course #156
- Finnish tietenkin of course #505
- French évidemment of course, evidently, obviously #1,489
- German ja obviously; certainly; of course; as you know;… #17
- Greek βέβαια certainly, of course #464
- Hebrew כמובן of course, naturally, certainly #196
- Hungarian persze of course, naturally #106
- Icelandic leið route, way, course #625
- Indonesian tentu surely, certainly, of course #142
- Italian certo certainly, of course, surely, definitely #129
- Korean 물론 of course, certainly, naturally #182
- Latvian kārta layer, course, coating #1,073
- Lithuanian žinoma of course #106
- Macedonian тек current, flow, course, stream #1,429
- Malay tentu certainly; surely; of course #210
- Malayalam തീരുമാനിക്കുക to decide a plan, course, decision, etc #2,384
- Norwegian selvsagt of course #454
- Persian البته of course #134
- Polish jasne of course, naturally, sure, sure thing #221
- Portuguese curso #2,113
- Romanian desigur of course; certainly #323
- Russian конечно of course, certainly #115
- Serbian naravno of course #125
- Slovenian seveda of course, naturally #89
- Spanish claro certainly, naturally, of course #165
- Swedish självklart of course, self-evident, obviously #505
- Tagalog siyempre of course; certainly #329
- Tamil கரைப்பு sloping course in roofing #2,142
- Turkish tabii of course #129
- Ukrainian звісно surely, definitely, of course #320
- Vietnamese tất then surely; of course #117
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.