How to say “discover” 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 English, where find is the 144th most used word.
- Albanian zbuluar to discover #959
- Arabic اكتشف to discover #1,399
- Armenian հայտնաբերել to discover #814
- Bosnian naći to find, discover #312
- Bulgarian открия to discover #1,094
- Catalan descobrir to discover #1,148
- Chinese 發現 to discover; to find; to find out #588
- Croatian naći to find, discover #261
- Danish opdaget to discover, detect #1,809
- Dutch ontdekt to discover #1,116
- English find To encounter or discover by accident; to… #144
- Esperanto malkovris To discover #1,261
- Finnish löytää to find; to discover; to come across #402
- French découvert to discover #1,107
- Galician descubrir to discover #2,021
- German finden to find; to discover #216
- Greek βρω to find, discover, locate #334
- Hebrew גילה to discover #1,425
- Icelandic uppgötva to discover #2,086
- Lithuanian radau find, discover #342
- Macedonian дознае to find out, discover #799
- Malay mengetahui to discover, to find out #601
- Norwegian oppdaget to discover #1,167
- Polish dowiedzieć to find out, to learn, to discover #873
- Portuguese descobrir to discover #513
- Romanian descoperi to discover #2,326
- Serbian naći to find, discover #338
- Slovak nájsť to find, to discover, to locate #210
- Spanish descubrir to discover #1,969
- Swedish finnas to find, to locate, to discover #789
- Tamil கண்டுபிடி to find, discover, detect, figure out, spot,… #772
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.