How to say “easy” in 40 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 Norwegian, where greit is the 132nd most used word.
- Afrikaans makliker #896
- Arabic سهل #721
- Armenian հեշտ easy, not hard, light #419
- Basque errazago #1,187
- Bengali সহজ easy, simple #280
- Bosnian laku #521
- Catalan fàcil #505
- Chinese 容易 easy; simple #156
- Croatian laku #567
- Danish nemt #970
- Dutch makkelijk #742
- English difficult Hard, not easy, requiring much effort #898
- Esperanto facila easy; simple #1,267
- Estonian lihtne simple, easy #487
- Finnish helppoa easy, simple #825
- French facile easy, simple #525
- Galician fácil #780
- German einfacher #1,940
- Greek εύκολο #609
- Hebrew נוח comfortable, easy #830
- Hindi आसान #437
- Hungarian könnyű #643
- Icelandic hægur #1,248
- Indonesian mudah #341
- Italian facile #592
- Korean 쉽게 to be easy #429
- Latvian viegli light, easy, mild, lightly, easily, mildly;… #455
- Malay jelas Aurally or visually easy to be perceived #398
- Malayalam എളുപ്പം #357
- Norwegian greit straight, easy #132
- Polish łatwe easy, simple #1,989
- Portuguese fácil #495
- Serbian laku #506
- Spanish padres cool, acceptable, easy #493
- Swedish enkel simple, easy #2,074
- Tagalog madali quick; easy #584
- Tamil சுலபம் that which is easy, simple, trivial; ease,… #1,333
- Turkish kolay #343
- Urdu آسان #238
- Vietnamese dễ #396
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.