How to say “four” in 50 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 Korean, where 네 is the 8th most used word.
- Afrikaans vier #392
- Albanian katër #374
- Arabic أربعة #391
- Armenian չորս #644
- Bengali চার #418
- Bosnian četiri #535
- Bulgarian четири #509
- Catalan quatre #427
- Croatian četiri #472
- Czech čtyři #508
- Danish fire #332
- Dutch vier #392
- English three A numerical value after two and before four.… #227
- Esperanto kvar #420
- Estonian neli #459
- Finnish neljä #437
- French quatre #516
- Galician catro #325
- German vier #509
- Greek τέσσερα four, 4 #879
- Hebrew ארבעה #717
- Hindi चारों all four, around #474
- Hungarian négy #469
- Icelandic fjögur #595
- Indonesian empat #485
- Italian quattro #512
- Korean 네 #8
- Latvian četri #732
- Lithuanian keturi #579
- Macedonian четири #424
- Malay empat #455
- Malayalam നാല് #198
- Norwegian fire #329
- Persian چهار #371
- Polish cztery #651
- Portuguese quatro #434
- Romanian patru #424
- Russian четыре #653
- Serbian četiri #496
- Slovak štyri #419
- Slovenian štiri #260
- Spanish cuatro #410
- Swedish fyra #340
- Tagalog apat #558
- Tamil நான்கு #245
- Telugu నలుగురు four persons #1,853
- Turkish dört #338
- Ukrainian чотири #563
- Urdu چار #258
- Vietnamese tư #574
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.