How to say “garden” 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 tuin is the 547th most used word.
- Afrikaans tuin A garden, yard #547
- Albanian kopsht #2,291
- Arabic حديقة #1,140
- Basque lorategi #1,246
- Bengali বাগান garden, orchard #1,420
- Bulgarian градина #1,963
- Catalan jardí #1,931
- Croatian vrt #2,266
- Danish haven #2,348
- Dutch tuin a garden, yard #1,725
- Esperanto ĝardeno #719
- Estonian aias #2,023
- French jardin #1,708
- Galician xardín #1,093
- German garten garden, yard #1,784
- Greek κήπο #1,774
- Indonesian kebun garden, orchard, estate, plantation #1,788
- Italian giardino #1,939
- Korean 정원 garden, vegetable garden, yard #2,442
- Lithuanian sodas #2,198
- Macedonian градина #2,153
- Malay taman park, garden #983
- Malayalam തോട്ടം #1,320
- Norwegian hagen a garden #1,981
- Persian باغ garden, orchard, bagh #1,358
- Portuguese jardim #1,904
- Romanian parc park; garden; terrace #1,764
- Slovak zoo zoological garden #1,561
- Slovenian vrt #818
- Spanish jardín #1,764
- Tagalog halamanan #2,079
- Tamil தோட்டம் garden, orchard, plantation #2,130
- Ukrainian город vegetable garden #955
- Urdu باغ #1,169
- Vietnamese vườn #1,546
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.