How to say “feeling” in 45 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 Chinese, where 感到 is the 152nd most used word.
- Afrikaans emosie emotion, feeling #1,997
- Albanian ndjenjë feeling, emotion #1,230
- Arabic شعور feeling, sensation, emotion #582
- Armenian զգացմունք feeling, emotion #1,380
- Bengali অনুভব #387
- Bosnian osjećaj #951
- Bulgarian чувство feeling, sensation #1,197
- Catalan sentiments emotion; feeling; sentiment #1,348
- Chinese 感到 to feel; to sense; to have a feeling that #152
- Czech pocit #532
- Danish følelser #891
- Dutch gevoel feeling, emotion #635
- English happy Having a feeling arising from a consciousness… #290
- Esperanto sento feeling, sensation #1,187
- Estonian tunne #308
- Galician sentimento feeling, emotion, sentiment #1,349
- Georgian გრძნობა consciousness, feeling, sensation, sense,… #742
- German gefühl #739
- Greek εντύπωση impression, feeling about something #1,839
- Hebrew הרגשה a feeling, a sentiment #999
- Hindi एहसास feeling, sensation #989
- Icelandic tilfinning feeling, sentiment #1,372
- Indonesian perasaan #664
- Italian sentimenti feeling, emotion, sentiment #1,518
- Korean 기분 feeling, mood #293
- Latvian jūtas feeling, emotion #943
- Lithuanian jausmas feeling, emotion, sense #646
- Macedonian чувство feeling, sensation #801
- Malay cinta affection; feeling of love; strong attachment… #277
- Malayalam കുറ്റബോധം feeling guilty; remorse; guilt #944
- Norwegian følelser feeling, sensation #1,185
- Persian احساس feeling, emotion #204
- Polish uczucie #1,372
- Portuguese vontade will; the condition of feeling like or… #709
- Russian чувство sense, feeling #1,050
- Serbian osećaj #755
- Slovenian čustvo emotion, feeling #2,111
- Spanish sentimientos #1,395
- Swedish känslor #966
- Tagalog hiya shame; feeling of embarrassment #1,475
- Telugu అనుభూతి #156
- Turkish his feeling, sensation, emotion #1,502
- Ukrainian почуття sense, feeling #1,024
- Urdu احساس consciousness, emotion, feeling, perception,… #387
- Vietnamese niềm feeling; sentiment #1,082
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.