How to say “flee” in 31 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 逃跑 is the 530th most used word.
- Arabic هرب to flee, to escape #920
- Bengali পালানো to flee, to run away, to escape #1,635
- Bosnian pobjeći to flee, run away #1,367
- Bulgarian бягам to run away, to flee, to escape #2,290
- Catalan fugir to flee #1,009
- Chinese 逃跑 to run away; to flee; to escape #530
- Croatian pobjeći to flee, run away #888
- Czech utéct to run away, to flee #1,250
- Danish flygte to run away, flee #1,311
- Dutch vlucht to flee #960
- Esperanto fuĝi to flee #1,457
- Estonian põgenema to flee, to escape, to abscond #1,677
- Finnish paeta to flee, run away, escape #1,688
- Galician fuxir to flee #1,166
- German fliehen to flee; to escape #2,276
- Greek ξέφυγε to flee, to get away, to escape #2,296
- Hebrew נמלט to flee, escape; be a fugitive #1,990
- Hindi भागने to flee; run away; escape #2,103
- Italian scappare to run away, flee, escape, scarper or… #1,026
- Latvian bēgt to flee, run away, escape #1,627
- Norwegian flykte to flee, run away #1,656
- Polish uciec to run away, to flee #1,077
- Portuguese fugir to run away; to flee #713
- Serbian pobeći to flee, run away #1,859
- Slovak ujsť to flee, to escape, to run away #1,012
- Slovenian bežati to flee, run away #1,216
- Spanish huir to flee, to run away #2,311
- Swedish fly to flee, to run away, to escape #1,002
- Tamil ஓடு to run, flee, fasten #756
- Telugu పారిపోవు to flee, run away, escape #1,133
- Ukrainian втекти to flee, to get away, to run away, to run off #1,351
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.