How to say “date” in 37 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 English, where today is the 228th most used word.
- Arabic تاريخ date, time #663
- Armenian ժամադրություն appointment; meeting; date #1,714
- Bengali তারিখ #857
- Bosnian datum #1,980
- Catalan data #2,114
- Chinese 日子 date; day #279
- Croatian datum #1,830
- Czech rande date, appointment #800
- Danish tidspunkt time, moment, date, point in time #790
- Dutch date a date #1,544
- English today On the current day or date #228
- Finnish päiväys #2,069
- French rendez-vous #669
- German date #1,586
- Greek ημερομηνία #2,143
- Hebrew פגישה A meeting, an appointment, a date #756
- Icelandic stefnumót #2,450
- Indonesian pacaran to date: to have a steady relationship with;… #2,431
- Korean 데이트 #525
- Latvian randiņš #1,586
- Macedonian рок due date #1,085
- Malay tarikh #1,176
- Malayalam തീയതി #831
- Norwegian date a date #1,239
- Polish randkę date, tryst #1,782
- Portuguese data #1,725
- Russian свидание appointment; date #1,045
- Serbian datum #2,041
- Slovak dátum #1,236
- Slovenian datum #920
- Spanish cita #741
- Swedish dejt a date #1,500
- Tagalog petsa #1,109
- Tamil தேதி date, day of the month #717
- Telugu ఈత wild date tree called Phoenix sylvestris #595
- Turkish tarih #1,351
- Urdu تاریخ date; appointment #335
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.