How to say “glad” in 30 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 Czech, where rád is the 141st most used word.
- Arabic مسرور delighted, glad, pleased #1,080
- Armenian ուրախ happy, glad, cheerful #251
- Bengali আনন্দিত delighted, happy, glad, merry #860
- Bosnian drago to be glad, pleased, delighted #261
- Chinese 高興 glad; happy; pleased; delighted #899
- Croatian drago to be glad, pleased, delighted #267
- Czech rád #141
- Danish glad happy, glad #303
- Esperanto ĝojas to be glad, happy, or joyful; to rejoice #553
- Finnish onnellinen happy, glad, pleased, gratified, content #990
- German froh glad; happy; cheerful #717
- Greek χαίρομαι to be happy, to be glad #385
- Hebrew שמח happy, glad, pleased #289
- Hungarian örülök to be happy or glad, to rejoice #299
- Icelandic kátur jolly, glad, cheerful #1,827
- Indonesian bahagia happy; glad #469
- Korean 반갑다 to be glad, happy; pleasant; welcome #1,444
- Latvian priecīgs happy, glad, joyful, delighted #1,264
- Lithuanian džiaugtis to rejoice, be glad #1,890
- Norwegian glad happy, glad #263
- Persian شاد glad, happy, cheerful #1,274
- Romanian bucuros #1,820
- Russian рад #401
- Serbian drago to be glad, pleased, delighted #256
- Slovenian vesel happy, cheerful, glad #279
- Swedish glad happy, glad #398
- Telugu ఆనందించారు to be glad, to rejoice #1,703
- Turkish memnun grateful, glad #486
- Ukrainian радий #483
- Vietnamese mừng glad, happy #415
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.