How to say “flight” 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 Slovenian, where let is the 118th most used word.
- Afrikaans vlug flight, escape #529
- Arabic طيران #2,396
- Basque ihes flight, escape #217
- Bosnian let #1,215
- Bulgarian полет #1,526
- Chinese 航班 #1,124
- Croatian let #1,222
- Czech lety #655
- Danish flugt escape, flight #2,128
- Esperanto flugo #967
- Estonian lend #1,474
- Finnish pakoon flight, fleeing #1,696
- French vol #1,097
- German flug #1,746
- Greek πτήση flight, the act of flying #1,338
- Hebrew טיסה #1,295
- Hindi उड़ान #710
- Icelandic flug flight, flying #1,054
- Indonesian penerbangan #1,194
- Italian fuga flight, escape #1,952
- Korean 비행 flight; flying #1,071
- Macedonian лет #1,286
- Malayalam ഫ്ലൈറ്റ് #1,073
- Persian پرواز #422
- Polish lot #2,399
- Portuguese fuga escape, flight #1,737
- Romanian zbor #1,193
- Serbian let #1,181
- Slovenian let #118
- Ukrainian рейс #2,233
- Urdu پرواز #349
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.