How to say “flat” in 37 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 Slovak, where byt is the 465th most used word.
- Afrikaans vlak flat, level, even #1,092
- Arabic شقة apartment, flat #997
- Armenian բնակարան flat, apartment #1,584
- Basque laura flat, level #568
- Bosnian stan flat, apartment #657
- Bulgarian апартамент flat, rooms, apartment, suite #1,225
- Catalan maria a type of round, flat biscuit #1,779
- Croatian stan flat, apartment #646
- Czech byt apartment, flat #1,167
- Danish lejlighed apartment, flat #900
- Dutch flat flat, apartment #1,700
- English evening To make flat and level #631
- Esperanto apartamento apartment, flat #1,789
- Finnish b B flat #2,030
- French table flat surface atop various objects #800
- German plan planar, flat, level, smooth #626
- Greek διαμέρισμα apartment, flat #983
- Hebrew נחת A flat, a flat sign #2,411
- Indonesian latar level, flat #2,416
- Italian appartamento apartment, flat #992
- Korean 바닥 floor; bottom; a flat and usually low surface… #2,105
- Lithuanian butas flat, apartment #1,325
- Macedonian стан flat, apartment #775
- Malay superman lying flat on the stomach when riding the… #1,732
- Malayalam പരന്ന flat; having no variations in altitude #2,213
- Norwegian leiligheten a flat or apartment #1,153
- Persian تخت #583
- Polish mieszkania apartment, flat #1,721
- Portuguese plano flat; level #500
- Serbian stan flat, apartment #680
- Slovak byt apartment, flat #465
- Spanish apartamento flat, apartment #1,237
- Swedish planet a plane; flat surface #890
- Tagalog latag unrolling or spreading on a flat surface #1,376
- Turkish düz flat, smooth, even #1,910
- Ukrainian квартира apartment, flat #1,921
- Vietnamese giáng a flat #1,278
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.