How to say “give” in 52 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 Basque, where eman is the 41st most used word.
- Afrikaans gee to give #89
- Albanian jep to give #175
- Arabic تسمع to give ear, to listen, to lend an ear #643
- Armenian տուր to give #161
- Basque eman to give #41
- Bengali দিতে to give #92
- Bosnian dati to give #407
- Bulgarian дай to give #220
- Catalan dona to give #152
- Chinese 住手 to stop; to give up #302
- Croatian dati to give #354
- Czech dej to give #284
- Danish giv to give #199
- Dutch geef to give #166
- English worry To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety… #355
- Esperanto donu to give #191
- Estonian anda to give #407
- Finnish anna to give #89
- French donner to give, to transfer the possession/holding… #347
- Galician dar to give #280
- Georgian მომეცი to give #407
- German gibt to give #117
- Greek δώσε to give #400
- Hebrew תן to give #163
- Hindi दिया to give, grant, award #57
- Hungarian add to give or shift to or near someone or… #369
- Icelandic gefa to give something #246
- Indonesian membayar to give money or other compensation to in… #502
- Italian dato to give #293
- Latvian ak used to give an interjectional flavor to an… #71
- Lithuanian duok to give #213
- Macedonian дај to give #163
- Malay beri To give #259
- Malayalam താ to give to the 1st or 2nd person #151
- Norwegian gi to give #117
- Persian داد to give #160
- Polish daj to give to #177
- Portuguese pagar to give money in exchange for a good or… #560
- Romanian dau to give #233
- Russian дать to give #536
- Serbian dati to give #505
- Slovak daj to give, put #157
- Slovenian dajte to give #266
- Spanish da to give, to give out #351
- Swedish ge to give #113
- Tagalog bang used with a quality for emphasis and to give… #76
- Tamil தர to give #561
- Telugu అందించింది to give, hand over, to enable, to get #1,110
- Turkish ver to give #137
- Ukrainian дати to give #585
- Urdu دینے to give, to grant #268
- Vietnamese đưa to bring, to take, to give, to hand #149
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.