How to say “everything” in 33 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.
- всё[fsʲɵ] Russian
- 전부[t͡ɕʌ̹nbu] Korean
- όλα/ˈola/ Greek
- ყველაფერი[χʼʷe̞ɫäpʰe̞ɾi] Georgian
- সবকিছু/ʃɔbkit͡ʃʰu/ Bengali
- کل[kʰʲæl̥] Persian
“everything” in German: alles · Portuguese: tudo · Korean: 전부 · Russian: всё · Greek: όλα
It is commonest in Finnish, where kaikki is the 31st most used word.
Everything in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans alles/ˈal(ə)s/ #71
- Albanian gjithçka/ɟiθˈt͡ʃka/ #136
- Arabic عدا/ʕadaː/ except, everything exceeding … #512
- Basque guztiak/ɡus̻tiak/ everything, everybody #101
- Bengali সবকিছু/ʃɔbkit͡ʃʰu/ #179
- Bulgarian всичко[ˈfsit͡ʃko] neuter singular of вси́чък: everything, all #49
- Catalan tot[ˈtot] #37
- Chinese 一切/i⁵⁵⁻³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/ all; every; everything; anything #36
- Czech všechno[ˈfʃɛxno] #87
- Danish alting/alˀtenˀɡ/ #833
- Dutch alles/ˈɑləs/ #90
- English universe/ˈjunəˌvɝs/ The sum of everything that exists in the… #1,602
- Esperanto ĉio/ˈt͡ʃio/ #80
- Finnish kaikki/ˈkɑi̯kːi/ #31
- Galician todo[toðʊ] #32
- Georgian ყველაფერი[χʼʷe̞ɫäpʰe̞ɾi] #41
- German alles/ˈaləs/ everything; all #69
- Greek όλα/ˈola/ #72
- Hungarian mindent[ˈmindɛnt] all, everything #126
- Indonesian segala/səˈɡala/ #534
- Korean 전부[t͡ɕʌ̹nbu] everything, all #147
- Latvian viss[vis] all, everything, anything #44
- Lithuanian viskas[ˈʋʲɪskɐs] #39
- Malay segala/səɡala/ #568
- Norwegian alt/ˈɑlt/ everything, all, anything #66
- Persian کل[kʰʲæl̥] #293
- Polish wszystko/ˈfʂɘst.kɔ/ #46
- Portuguese tudo/ˈtu.du/ #48
- Russian всё[fsʲɵ] #48
- Slovenian vse/uˈse/ #32
- Swedish allt/alt/ everything, all #71
- Telugu అన్నీ/anːiː/ all things; everything #694
- Ukrainian все[ʍsɛ] all, everything #14
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.