How to say “experience” in 39 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 English, where world is the 224th most used word.
- Albanian përvojë #1,768
- Arabic حي to experience, to witness #815
- Bengali অভিজ্ঞতা vast experience #1,030
- Bosnian iskustvo #1,696
- Catalan experiència #1,014
- Chinese 感受 to experience; to feel; to be affected by #363
- Croatian iskustvo #1,713
- Czech dočkat to get to see or experience after a wait #1,662
- Danish erfaring #1,936
- Dutch ervaring #1,312
- English world The subjective human experience, regarded… #224
- Esperanto travivis to spend, experience #1,680
- Estonian kogemus #1,871
- German leiden to suffer, to experience pain, sorrow, etc #1,524
- Greek εμπειρία #1,268
- Hebrew נהנה To enjoy, to experience enjoyment #1,033
- Hindi अनुभव experience, perception, consciousness #1,267
- Icelandic reynsla #2,140
- Indonesian pengalaman #1,240
- Italian conosco to know, to meet, to experience #532
- Korean 신세 one's life experience #1,884
- Latvian pieredze #2,129
- Lithuanian patirtis #2,053
- Macedonian искуство #992
- Malay mengalami to experience; to undergo; to sustain; to… #745
- Malayalam പരിചയം #708
- Norwegian erfaring #1,846
- Persian تجربه #650
- Portuguese experiência experience of which one is cognizant #1,063
- Russian опыт #2,431
- Serbian iskustvo #1,626
- Slovenian čutiti to feel, to experience #1,220
- Spanish experiencia #1,172
- Swedish slipper to not have to experience, to not have to… #1,498
- Tagalog karanasan #1,848
- Tamil அனுபவம் #1,206
- Telugu పొందు to feel, experience #1,216
- Ukrainian досвід #2,389
- Urdu تجربہ #660
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.