How to say “floor” in 41 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 pod is the 155th most used word.
- Afrikaans vloer A floor #788
- Albanian lëmë floor, threshing #724
- Arabic أرضية #2,495
- Armenian հարկ floor, storey #1,735
- Bengali মেঝে #2,179
- Bosnian sprat floor, story/storey #2,289
- Bulgarian етаж floor, storey #1,088
- Catalan pis #1,090
- Chinese 地板 #927
- Croatian kat floor, storey #1,658
- Danish gulvet #1,161
- Dutch vloer a floor #1,808
- English upstairs Up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or… #1,213
- Esperanto etaĝo story/storey, floor #1,323
- Estonian korrus storey, floor #1,868
- French étage floor, storey #1,471
- Galician chan #640
- Greek πάτωμα floor of a room, elevator etc #1,332
- Hebrew קומה story, floor #1,974
- Indonesian lantai #625
- Italian pavimento #2,282
- Korean 바닥 floor; bottom; a flat and usually low surface… #2,105
- Latvian grīdas floor, flooring #1,639
- Lithuanian grindys #2,267
- Macedonian спрат floor, story/storey #2,002
- Malay tingkat floor, storey #669
- Malayalam തറ #2,183
- Norwegian gulvet a floor #1,305
- Persian طبقه floor, story #494
- Romanian cat #730
- Russian пол #855
- Serbian sprat floor, story/storey #2,131
- Slovak poschodie storey, floor #1,030
- Slovenian pod #155
- Spanish piso floor, ground #987
- Swedish golvet a floor #1,330
- Tagalog sahig #805
- Tamil தளம் floor, pavement #667
- Turkish kat floor, storey, level #970
- Urdu منزل storey, floor #623
- Vietnamese tầng story; floor #920
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.