How to say “entire” in 37 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 Macedonian, where сите is the 54th most used word.
- Albanian mamit to deceive, entire, lure, embroil #1,426
- Arabic جميع whole, entire, all #171
- Armenian ողջ whole, entire #158
- Basque osoa complete, entire #190
- Bengali সারা whole, entire #425
- Bosnian čitav whole, entire, all #1,620
- Bulgarian цял entire, whole, all, full, intact, in one… #458
- Catalan sencer whole, entire #1,795
- Chinese 一家 entire family #376
- Croatian čitav whole, entire, all #1,754
- Danish hele whole, entire, complete, full #118
- Esperanto tuta whole, entire #214
- Estonian kogu all, whole, entire #151
- Finnish koko whole, entire #113
- Galician total complete, entire #1,091
- German zeit for the entire time of, during #136
- Greek όλοι whole, entire #120
- Hindi सारे whole, entire #448
- Hungarian teljes entire, full, total #472
- Indonesian seluruh whole, entire, all #286
- Italian adoro to love with one's entire heart and soul;… #973
- Korean 온 all, whole, entire #136
- Latvian visu all, whole, entire #56
- Lithuanian visas all, whole, entire; all, every #229
- Macedonian сите entire, whole, all #54
- Malay seluruh the whole, the entire #301
- Polish cały whole, complete, entire; all #225
- Portuguese inteiro whole; entire; in full #1,329
- Romanian întreg whole, entire #1,520
- Russian всех all, the whole, all of, the whole of, the… #162
- Serbian čitav whole, entire, all #1,608
- Spanish entero whole; entire #1,956
- Tamil எல்லாம் the whole, entire; throughout #112
- Turkish tüm entire, complete #93
- Ukrainian цілий whole, intact, entire, integral #986
- Urdu پورا whole, entire #496
- Vietnamese suốt throughout; from end to end; entire #628
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.