How to say “different” in 48 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 다른 is the 48th most used word.
- Albanian ndryshme #683
- Arabic غير other than, different from, unlike #81
- Armenian ուրիշ other, different #198
- Basque desberdin #1,002
- Bengali আলাদা separate, distinct, different; unconnected;… #363
- Bosnian drugačiji #1,626
- Bulgarian различен different, differing, dissimilar #1,272
- Catalan diferent #551
- Chinese 不同 to be different; to differ; to disagree #139
- Croatian drugačiji #1,698
- Czech jiný #525
- Danish forskellige #981
- Dutch verschillende #1,131
- English change To become something different #386
- Esperanto malsama #2,389
- Estonian eriline special, different #823
- Finnish eri different, other, another #474
- French différent #981
- Galician diferente #643
- Georgian განსხვავებული #684
- German anderen other, different #213
- Greek διαφορετικό dissimilar, different #1,158
- Hebrew השתנה to change, become different #1,109
- Hindi अन्य other, different #350
- Hungarian különböző different, dissimilar #1,446
- Icelandic mismunandi different, various #1,530
- Indonesian berbeda to have difference; to be different #366
- Italian diverso different, diverse #912
- Korean 다른 different, other #48
- Lithuanian kitaip differently, in a different way #314
- Macedonian различен different, distinct #1,985
- Malay berbeza to have difference; to be different #449
- Malayalam വ്യത്യസ്ത #760
- Norwegian annerledes #719
- Persian غیر other than, different from, unlike #786
- Polish innego different, another, other #387
- Portuguese diferente #554
- Romanian diferit different, dissimilar, distinct #911
- Russian другой other, another, different, next, else, second #331
- Serbian drugačiji #1,442
- Slovenian drug other, another, different #265
- Spanish diferentes #1,217
- Tagalog iba another; different one #95
- Tamil வெவ்வேறு separate, different, various #715
- Turkish farklı #309
- Ukrainian інакше differently, in a different way, otherwise #588
- Urdu مختلف #217
- Vietnamese khác different, other #127
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.