How to say “dinner” in 32 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 Chinese, where 晚餐 is the 438th most used word.
- Afrikaans aandete supper, dinner, evening meal #1,100
- Albanian darkë supper, dinner #641
- Arabic عشاء supper, dinner #965
- Basque afaldu to have dinner #857
- Bosnian ručak lunch, dinner, usually the main meal of the… #991
- Bulgarian вечеря dinner, supper #541
- Catalan sopar to dine, have dinner #523
- Chinese 晚餐 supper; dinner #438
- Croatian ručak lunch, dinner, usually the main meal of the… #916
- Czech večeři dinner, supper, evening meal #667
- Dutch diner dinner, supper #1,865
- Esperanto vespermanĝo dinner, supper, evening meal #1,475
- Estonian õhtusöök #1,230
- Galician xantar #1,730
- German tisch dining table, dinner table #906
- Hungarian vacsora dinner, supper #1,498
- Italian cena #585
- Latvian vakariņas #930
- Lithuanian vakarienė #1,142
- Macedonian вечера #461
- Malayalam അത്താഴം dinner, supper, food at night #600
- Persian شام dinner, supper #441
- Polish obiad dinner, lunch #1,195
- Portuguese jantar #508
- Romanian cina dinner, supper #841
- Russian ужин supper, late dinner #877
- Serbian ručak lunch, dinner, usually the main meal of the… #871
- Slovak večera #699
- Slovenian večerja #623
- Tagalog hapunan dinner; supper #1,402
- Ukrainian обід dinner, lunch #1,344
- Vietnamese tiệc banquet; party; dinner #729
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.