How to say “decision” 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 Galician, where acordo is the 273rd most used word.
- Albanian vendim #1,133
- Arabic قرار #891
- Armenian որոշում #645
- Bengali সিদ্ধান্ত #312
- Bosnian odluka #1,185
- Bulgarian решение decision, determination, resolution #703
- Catalan decisió #878
- Chinese 決定 to decide; to make a decision #845
- Croatian odluka #1,169
- Danish beslutning #1,152
- Dutch beslissing #1,194
- English choice An option; a decision; an opportunity to… #720
- Esperanto decido #1,997
- Estonian otsus #984
- Finnish päätös #1,924
- French décision #976
- Galician acordo agreement, deal, decision #273
- German entscheidung #952
- Greek απόφαση decision, ruling, verdict, judgement,… #892
- Hebrew החלטה A decision: an act of deciding, or the result… #944
- Hindi निर्णय #691
- Hungarian döntés #1,898
- Icelandic ákvörðun decision, resolution #2,193
- Indonesian pilihan an option; a decision; an opportunity to… #453
- Italian decisione #1,109
- Korean 결정 #1,229
- Latvian lēmums #1,522
- Macedonian одлука #744
- Malayalam തീരുമാനം #318
- Norwegian avgjørelse a decision #2,229
- Persian تصمیم decision, determination #758
- Polish decyzję #1,561
- Portuguese decisão #942
- Romanian decizie #1,373
- Russian решение decision, solution, answer #723
- Serbian odluka #1,235
- Slovak rozhodnutie #591
- Spanish decisión #860
- Swedish beslut decision, resolution #899
- Tagalog desisyon #906
- Telugu వ్యవస్థ settlement, decision, decree #632
- Turkish karar #300
- Ukrainian рішення #770
- Urdu فیصلہ decision; judgment #353
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.