How to say “easy” in 40 different 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.
- سهل/sahl/ Arabic
- 容易/ɻʊŋ³⁵ i⁵¹/ Chinese
- आसान/ɑː.sɑːn/ Hindi
- εύκολο/ˈefkoˌlo/ Greek
- հեշտ/heʃt/ Armenian
- সহজ/ʃɔhod͡ʒ/ Bengali
“easy” in French: facile · German: einfacher · Italian: facile · Portuguese: fácil · Chinese: 容易 · Arabic: سهل · Hindi: आसान · Turkish: kolay
It is commonest in Chinese, where 容易 is the 156th most used word.
Easy in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans makliker/ˈmɐkləkər/ #896
- Arabic سهل/sahl/ #721
- Armenian հեշտ/heʃt/ easy, not hard, light #419
- Basque errazago/eˈras̻aˌɣo/ #1,187
- Bengali সহজ/ʃɔhod͡ʒ/ easy, simple #280
- Bosnian laku/ˈlakʊ/ #521
- Catalan fàcil[ˈfa.sil] #505
- Chinese 容易/ɻʊŋ³⁵ i⁵¹/ easy; simple #156
- Croatian laku/ˈlakʊ/ #567
- Danish nemt/ˈnɛmˀd/ #970
- Dutch makkelijk/ˈmɑ.kə.lək/ #742
- English difficult/ˈdɪfɪkəlt/ Hard, not easy, requiring much effort #898
- Esperanto facila/faˈt͡sila/ easy; simple #1,267
- Estonian lihtne/ˈlihtne/ simple, easy #487
- Finnish helppoa/ˈhelpːoa/ easy, simple #825
- French facile/fa.sil/ easy, simple #525
- Galician fácil/ˈfaθil/ #780
- German einfacher/ˈʔaɪ̯nfaxɐ/ #1,940
- Greek εύκολο/ˈefkoˌlo/ #609
- Hebrew נוח/ˈno.aχ/ comfortable, easy #830
- Hindi आसान/ɑː.sɑːn/ #437
- Hungarian könnyű[ˈkøɲːyː] #643
- Icelandic hægur[ˈhaiːɣʏr] #1,248
- Indonesian mudah/ˈmudah/ #341
- Italian facile/ˈfa.t͡ʃi.le/ #592
- Korean 쉽게[ʃʰɥip̚k͈e̞] to be easy #429
- Latvian viegli/ˈʋieɡli/ light, easy, mild, lightly, easily, mildly;… #455
- Malay jelas[d͡ʒə.las] Aurally or visually easy to be perceived #398
- Malayalam എളുപ്പം/eɭuppɐm/ #357
- Norwegian greit/ˈɡræ͡ɪt/ straight, easy #132
- Polish łatwe/ˈwa.tfɛ/ easy, simple #1,989
- Portuguese fácil/ˈfa.siw/ #495
- Serbian laku/ˈlakʊ/ #506
- Spanish padres/ˈpadɾes/ cool, acceptable, easy #493
- Swedish enkel/ˈɛŋ.kɛl/ simple, easy #2,074
- Tagalog madali/madaˈliʔ/ quick; easy #584
- Tamil சுலபம்/tʃʊlɐbɐm/ that which is easy, simple, trivial; ease,… #1,333
- Turkish kolay[koˈɫaj] #343
- Urdu آسان/ɑː.sɑːn/ #238
- Vietnamese dễ[ze˦ˀ˥] #396
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.