How to say “go” in 53 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 Catalan, where va is the 18th most used word.
- Afrikaans gaan to go #21
- Albanian shkojmë to go, pass #102
- Arabic هيا come on!; let's; let's go! #58
- Armenian գնա to go #127
- Basque joan to go #28
- Bengali যাও to go #50
- Bosnian hajde let's go #88
- Bulgarian отида to go, to go away #347
- Catalan va to go #18
- Chinese 回家 to return home; to go home; to come home #80
- Croatian hajde let's go #112
- Czech jít to walk, go #119
- Danish gå to go #79
- Dutch ga to go, to move from one place to another #62
- English think To ponder, to go over in one's mind #67
- Esperanto iru to go #75
- Estonian minema to go #109
- Finnish mennä to go #119
- French va to go #55
- Galician foi to go #55
- Georgian წადი to go #204
- German geht to go, to walk #81
- Greek πάμε to go, attend #93
- Hebrew קרה To happen, occur, go on #122
- Hindi गया to go, move, travel, leave, depart; to… #33
- Hungarian menj to go, travel #152
- Icelandic fer to go, to leave #84
- Indonesian pergi to go #36
- Italian va to go #63
- Korean 든 to come in, go in, get in, enter #670
- Latvian aiziet to leave, to go away, to escape #100
- Lithuanian eik to go #134
- Macedonian ајде let's go #55
- Malay pergi To go #32
- Malayalam പോകാം let's go #59
- Norwegian går To walk, go #65
- Persian رفت to go #242
- Polish iść to go; to walk #216
- Portuguese foi to go #34
- Romanian intrat to enter, go in #564
- Russian идти to go #326
- Serbian hajde let's go #91
- Slovak ísť to walk, to go #77
- Slovenian iti to go #163
- Spanish vamos to go #47
- Swedish far to go, to travel #232
- Tagalog umalis to go away #79
- Tamil விடு to let go #236
- Telugu వెళ్ళండి #80
- Turkish git to go #158
- Ukrainian йти to go, to walk #307
- Urdu گیا to go, to leave #38
- Vietnamese ra to go out, to leave #37
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.