How to say “drink” in 51 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 Georgian, where სმა is the 102nd most used word.
- Afrikaans drink to drink #203
- Albanian pije #494
- Arabic شراب drink, beverage #669
- Armenian խմել to drink #428
- Basque edan #286
- Bosnian piće drink, beverage #618
- Bulgarian питие beverage, drink #1,126
- Catalan beure to drink #779
- Chinese 喝酒 to drink alcohol #343
- Croatian piće drink, beverage #585
- Czech pití to drink #979
- Danish drikke a drink, beverage #675
- Dutch drinken to drink, consume a liquid #538
- English beer An alcoholic drink fermented from starch… #1,065
- Esperanto trinku to drink #906
- Estonian juua to drink #741
- Finnish juo to drink #1,275
- French boire to drink #660
- Galician beber to drink #828
- Georgian სმა to drink #102
- German trinken to drink by mouth #575
- Greek ποτό beverage, drink #624
- Hebrew משקה #865
- Hindi पी to drink #290
- Hungarian inni to drink #1,565
- Icelandic drekka to drink #457
- Indonesian minum to drink #305
- Italian bere to drink #641
- Korean 한잔 one drink; one glass #500
- Latvian iedzert to drink, to have a drink #1,093
- Lithuanian išgerti to drink up, drink dry, drink full entirety… #594
- Macedonian пијалок drink, beverage #974
- Malay minum to drink #300
- Malayalam ഡ്രിങ്ക് #726
- Norwegian drikke #667
- Persian آشام #872
- Polish pić to drink #1,819
- Portuguese beber to drink #624
- Romanian bea to drink #819
- Russian выпить to drink, to drink up #907
- Serbian piće drink, beverage #568
- Slovak piť to drink #748
- Slovenian piti to drink #724
- Spanish bebé to drink #477
- Swedish dricka to drink #733
- Tagalog uminom to drink; to have a drink #640
- Tamil பானம் #543
- Turkish içki alcoholic beverage, drink #653
- Ukrainian пити to drink #809
- Urdu پینا to drink #522
- Vietnamese uống to drink #371
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.