How to say “create” in 39 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 Basque, where egin is the 5th most used word.
- Afrikaans skep to create, make #761
- Arabic جعل to make: to create #523
- Basque egin to do, make, create, produce #5
- Bengali বানানো to create #527
- Bosnian praviš to make, create #1,794
- Catalan crear to create #1,250
- Croatian stvoriti to create #2,030
- Czech vytvořit to create #2,000
- Danish laver to make, create, construct, produce #143
- Dutch maken to make, create, prepare #129
- English close So as to leave or create little distance or… #424
- Esperanto kreis to create #1,184
- Estonian lõi to create, to make #866
- French créer to create #1,729
- Galician crear to create #1,416
- Georgian შექმნა to create #1,231
- German machen to make, to produce, to create #97
- Greek έφτιαξα to make, build, create, construct #1,692
- Hindi बनाने to make, create, produce #338
- Icelandic skapa to create #1,206
- Indonesian dibuat to make, create #977
- Italian creato to create #1,611
- Latvian radīt to create #1,596
- Macedonian создаде to create, produce #1,599
- Malay buat to make; to create #44
- Malayalam അകന്നു To create distance #1,249
- Norwegian skape to create #1,306
- Portuguese fazer to create; to produce #38
- Romanian forma to form; to create; to make #1,617
- Russian создать to create #2,264
- Serbian praviš to make, create #1,566
- Slovak vystáť to create by standing #2,111
- Spanish crear to create #1,908
- Swedish skapa to create; to make, to manufacture; to put… #1,191
- Tagalog gawin to create; to make #90
- Tamil செய்ய to do, perform, create, make, accomplish #26
- Ukrainian створити to create, make, produce #1,877
- Urdu بنانا to make, create, produce #1,370
- Vietnamese nhỉ Used to create a tag question #344
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.