How to say “day” in 52 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 Korean, where 날 is the 32nd most used word.
- Afrikaans dae a day #197
- Albanian ditë #134
- Arabic يوم at the day when #102
- Armenian օր #111
- Basque egun #70
- Bengali দিন #113
- Bosnian dana #141
- Bulgarian ден #117
- Catalan dia #116
- Chinese 一天 one day #94
- Croatian dana #142
- Czech dny #565
- Danish dag #120
- Dutch dag #149
- English today On the current day or date #228
- Esperanto tagon #187
- Estonian päeva #274
- Finnish päivä #305
- French jour #194
- Galician día #87
- Georgian დღე #162
- German tage #543
- Greek ημέρα #692
- Hebrew יום Day: the period between dawn and dusk #132
- Hindi दिन #131
- Hungarian nap on the specified day #153
- Icelandic dag a day #109
- Indonesian besok on the day after the present day #304
- Italian giorno #175
- Korean 날 #32
- Latvian dienu #211
- Lithuanian dieną day, daytime #174
- Macedonian ден #113
- Malay hari day: A period of time equal or almost equal… #64
- Malayalam ഇന്ന് today, this day #61
- Norwegian dag a day #123
- Persian روز #77
- Polish dni day; daytime #292
- Romanian zile #272
- Russian раз once, one day, once upon a time #90
- Serbian dana #137
- Slovak deň #111
- Slovenian dan #94
- Spanish día #134
- Swedish dag a day #153
- Tagalog araw-araw daily; every day #648
- Tamil நாள் #81
- Telugu రోజు #63
- Turkish gün #97
- Ukrainian раз once, one day, once upon a time #93
- Urdu دن #108
- Vietnamese ngày #126
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.