How to say “funny” in 35 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 Afrikaans, where snaaks is the 331st most used word.
- Afrikaans snaaks funny, comical #331
- Albanian qesharak funny, amusing; laughable, ridiculous #1,388
- Arabic مضحك funny, comical #451
- Bengali মজার #417
- Catalan graciós #1,842
- Chinese 好笑 funny; hilarious; amusing #589
- Croatian smiješan #2,106
- Czech vtipný funny, witty #1,832
- Danish morsomt funny, entertaining, amusing #1,536
- Dutch grappig #646
- Esperanto amuza funny, humorous #996
- Estonian naljakas #517
- Finnish hassua funny, silly #2,317
- French drôle funny, amusing #556
- Georgian სასაცილო #1,102
- German lustig funny, humorous #844
- Greek αστεία in a funny way #1,443
- Hebrew מצחיק Funny, amusing, humorous #408
- Hungarian vicces funny, humorous #466
- Icelandic fyndinn #997
- Indonesian lucu #443
- Italian divertente funny, amusing, entertaining, fun #539
- Latvian smieklīgi funny, amusing, ridiculous, funnily,… #550
- Macedonian смешен funny, ridiculous #1,419
- Malay lucu funny; hilarious #790
- Norwegian morsomt #612
- Polish śmieszne #1,331
- Romanian amuzant #658
- Russian смешно in a funny manner/way, comically #885
- Serbian smešan #2,347
- Spanish divertido entertaining, amusing, funny #677
- Swedish roligt funny, fun #532
- Tagalog kakatuwa amusing; funny #2,152
- Tamil நகைச்சுவை humorous, funny #767
- Turkish komik #460
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.