How to say “full” 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 Bulgarian, where него is the 94th most used word.
- Afrikaans vol #339
- Albanian plotë #615
- Arabic كامل complete, full #430
- Armenian լի full, packed #379
- Bengali পুরা full, fully #878
- Bosnian pun full, filled #956
- Bulgarian него full form of the third-person singular… #94
- Catalan ple #875
- Chinese 全是 to be full of; all; without exception #707
- Croatian pun full, filled #973
- Czech samé full of #879
- Danish fuld #503
- Dutch hele complete, full, whole #203
- English dangerous Full of danger #822
- Esperanto feliĉa full of well-being, happy #506
- Estonian täis #422
- Finnish täynnä full of, replete with #699
- French point full stop, period #367
- Galician chea #858
- Georgian სავსე full, packed #697
- German voller full of #931
- Greek γεμάτο full of, loaded with, plump #1,151
- Hebrew מלא Full, filled #480
- Hindi भुगतान payment, paying in full #326
- Hungarian teljes entire, full, total #472
- Icelandic fullur #818
- Italian pieno #911
- Korean 이름 name; full name #384
- Latvian pilnīgi complete, full, completely, fully; adverbial… #373
- Lithuanian išgerti to drink up, drink dry, drink full entirety… #594
- Macedonian полна #880
- Malay penuh #425
- Malayalam നിറഞ്ഞ #411
- Norwegian fru Mrs even with her full name #958
- Persian پر #298
- Polish pełne #1,875
- Portuguese cheio full, filled, completed #970
- Romanian plin #867
- Russian полный full, complete #1,400
- Serbian pun full, filled #904
- Slovak plný #705
- Slovenian poln #548
- Spanish lleno #1,148
- Swedish fyller to fill, to make full #1,908
- Tagalog bundat big-bellied, bloated; full, satiated #1,598
- Tamil முழு full, entire, whole, complete #157
- Telugu వివరంగా with full particulars, in detail #822
- Turkish dolu #507
- Ukrainian повністю fully, in full #956
- Vietnamese đầy full, filled #619
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.