How to say “disappear” in 31 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 Hungarian, where tűnik is the 201st most used word.
- Afrikaans verdwyn to disappear #455
- Albanian zhdukur to disappear, to hide #747
- Arabic اختفى to vanish, disappear, to go missing #1,131
- Basque desagertu to disappear, go away #386
- Bosnian nestati to disappear, vanish #1,825
- Bulgarian изчезна to disappear, to vanish #1,017
- Catalan desaparegut to disappear, to vanish #1,024
- Chinese 消失 to disappear; to vanish #226
- Croatian nestati to disappear, vanish #1,619
- Czech zmizet to disappear #1,780
- Danish forsvandt to vanish, to disappear #952
- Dutch verdwenen to disappear #991
- Esperanto malaperis to disappear #623
- Finnish häivy to disappear, vanish #937
- French disparu to disappear #752
- Galician desapareceu to disappear; to vanish #1,872
- German verschwunden to disappear, to vanish, to move out of view #1,102
- Greek εξαφανίστηκε to disappear, vanish #1,220
- Hebrew נעלם to disappear #604
- Hungarian tűnik to disappear, vanish #201
- Indonesian hilang to disappear, to vanish, to be no longer… #373
- Lithuanian dingti to disappear, vanish, go away #724
- Macedonian исчезне to disappear, vanish #1,712
- Norwegian forsvant to disappear, to vanish #964
- Polish zniknął to disappear, to vanish #1,775
- Portuguese desapareceu to disappear; to vanish #919
- Romanian dispari to disappear, vanish #1,558
- Serbian nestati to disappear, vanish #2,052
- Spanish desaparecido to disappear, to go missing, to vanish, to be… #1,715
- Swedish försvann to disappear, to vanish #921
- Tagalog mawala to disappear #507
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.