How to say “find” in 48 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 Portuguese, where acho is the 98th most used word.
- Afrikaans vind to find #192
- Albanian gjej to find #234
- Arabic وجد to find, to hit upon, to come across #731
- Armenian գտնել to find #555
- Basque aurkitu to find #102
- Bosnian naći to find, discover #312
- Bulgarian успея to have time, to find time #1,565
- Catalan trobar to find #221
- Chinese 發現 to discover; to find; to find out #588
- Croatian naći to find, discover #261
- Czech najít to find #336
- Danish finde to find #153
- Dutch vinden to find #185
- English search An attempt to find something #1,091
- Esperanto trovis to find, to retrieve #222
- Estonian leida to find #379
- Finnish löytää to find; to discover; to come across #402
- French trouvé to find; to retrieve something lost, turn up… #225
- Georgian პოვნა to find #717
- German finden to find; to discover #216
- Greek βρω to find, discover, locate #334
- Hebrew מצא to find #660
- Hungarian találtam to find, come across, stumble upon #482
- Icelandic finna to find #167
- Indonesian menemukan to find, to locate, to detect #157
- Italian trovato to find #248
- Korean 발견 find; discovery #1,016
- Latvian atrast to find #346
- Lithuanian radau find, discover #342
- Macedonian најде to find #270
- Malay mengetahui to discover, to find out #601
- Malayalam കണ്ടെത്തുക to find #930
- Norwegian fant to find #209
- Polish znaleźć to find #307
- Portuguese acho to find; to encounter #98
- Romanian găsit to find #208
- Russian найти to find #235
- Serbian naći to find, discover #338
- Slovak nájsť to find, to discover, to locate #210
- Slovenian najti to find, to encounter #242
- Spanish averiguar to find out, figure out, work out, determine #1,487
- Swedish hitta to find #204
- Tagalog alamin to find out; to investigate; to ascertain #1,938
- Tamil கண்டுபிடி to find, discover, detect, figure out, spot,… #772
- Telugu కనుగొను to see, observe, find out, discover, perceive #816
- Turkish bulmak to find #609
- Ukrainian знайти to find #308
- Vietnamese lùng to search for, to find for #1,336
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.