How to say “dream” in 42 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 Malayalam, where സ്വപ്നം is the 213th most used word.
- Afrikaans droom #408
- Albanian ëndërr #777
- Arabic حلم to dream or about while asleep #911
- Armenian երազ #464
- Basque amets #363
- Bengali স্বপ্ন #348
- Catalan somni #741
- Chinese 理想 ideal; dream #995
- Czech sen #943
- Danish drøm to dream #882
- Dutch droom to dream #849
- Esperanto sonĝo #1,162
- Estonian unistus #1,394
- French rêve #694
- Galician soño #595
- Georgian სიზმარი #1,225
- German traum #951
- Greek όνειρο #953
- Hebrew חלום #928
- Hindi सपना dream, reverie, vision #724
- Hungarian álom #1,713
- Icelandic draumur #900
- Indonesian mimpi #544
- Italian sogno #864
- Korean 꿈 #580
- Latvian sapnis #903
- Lithuanian sapnas #1,157
- Macedonian сон #574
- Malay mimpi #523
- Malayalam സ്വപ്നം dream seen at night, Imaginary events seen in… #213
- Norwegian drøm a dream #1,105
- Portuguese sonho #885
- Romanian vis dream; vision #1,071
- Slovak sen #531
- Slovenian sanjati to dream #1,881
- Swedish dröm a dream #991
- Tagalog pangarap ambition; dream #903
- Tamil கனவு #239
- Telugu కల #261
- Turkish hayal dream, wish #417
- Urdu خواب #674
- Vietnamese mơ to dream #668
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.