How to say “film” in 44 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 Galician, where filme is the 308th most used word.
- Afrikaans film #357
- Arabic فيلم film, movie #455
- Armenian ֆիլմ film; motion picture, movie #461
- Basque pelikula #706
- Bengali মুভি movie, film #943
- Bosnian film #627
- Bulgarian филм film, movie, motion picture #705
- Chinese 一片 piece, slice; one film #618
- Croatian film #663
- Czech film movie, film, motion picture #963
- Danish film a movie, a film, motion picture #644
- Dutch film a film, thin layer or membrane; especially… #613
- English mm A film with the content rating M #935
- Esperanto filmo film, movie, motion picture #792
- Estonian filmi photographic film #783
- Finnish elokuva movie, film, motion picture #2,110
- French film movie, film #521
- Galician filme film; movie; motion picture #308
- German film photographic film #663
- Greek ταινία film, movie #608
- Hebrew דוק film, sheet #1,169
- Hungarian film film, movie, motion picture, picture #1,426
- Indonesian film #470
- Italian film film, movie #518
- Korean 영화 movie, film #411
- Lithuanian filmas film, movie #488
- Macedonian филм film, strip #665
- Malay filem #590
- Norwegian film a film #944
- Persian فیلم film, movie #701
- Polish film film, movie, motion picture #778
- Portuguese filme film; movie; motion picture #613
- Romanian film movie, film #727
- Russian фильм film, movie #944
- Serbian film #609
- Slovak film photographic film #475
- Spanish película #635
- Swedish film film; a thin layer #914
- Tagalog pelikula film; movie; motion picture #698
- Tamil இயக்குநர் director, film director, filmmaker #1,197
- Telugu సినిమా film, movie #1,907
- Ukrainian фільм film, movie #832
- Urdu فلم film, movie #1,308
- Vietnamese phim #552
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.