How to say “decide” in 35 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 erabaki is the 257th most used word.
- Afrikaans besluit to decide #296
- Albanian vendosur to decide #507
- Arabic قضى to decide, decide upon, resolve, preordain,… #1,799
- Armenian որոշել to decide #700
- Basque erabaki to decide, to choose #257
- Bosnian odlučiti to decide #2,282
- Bulgarian реша to decide, to resolve #2,156
- Catalan triar to pick, to decide, to choose #1,059
- Chinese 決定 to decide; to make a decision #845
- Croatian odlučiti to decide #1,630
- Czech rozhodnutí to decide #808
- Danish besluttet to decide #1,638
- Dutch gekozen to choose, decide #1,562
- Esperanto decidis to decide #353
- Estonian otsustama to decide #2,004
- French décidé to decide #793
- Galician decidín to decide; to resolve; to settle #1,594
- Georgian გადაწყვიტა to decide, to resolve #682
- German entscheiden to decide, to make a decision #1,248
- Greek αποφάσισα to decide, resolve, reach a verdict #1,622
- Hebrew החליט To opt, choose, decide #1,656
- Italian deciso to decide, to fix, to arrange, to determine #698
- Lithuanian nutariau to decide, to resolve #1,752
- Macedonian реши to decide #1,032
- Malay tentukan to determine; to decide; to fix #1,895
- Malayalam തീരുമാനിക്കുക to decide a plan, course, decision, etc #2,384
- Norwegian bestemt to decide #1,078
- Portuguese decidir to decide #1,653
- Romanian decide to decide #1,834
- Serbian odlučiti to decide #2,499
- Slovak rozhodnúť to decide #895
- Spanish decidido to decide, to make up one's mind, to… #1,467
- Swedish bestämmer to decide from a position of authority #1,148
- Ukrainian вирішити to decide #1,890
- Vietnamese quyết to decide, to determine #355
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.