How to say “ground” in 34 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 Tamil, where காரணம் is the 198th most used word.
- Afrikaans grond ground, dirt, soil #499
- Arabic أصل #915
- Bengali স্থল ground, dry land #1,646
- Bulgarian земя earth, ground, humus; terrain #917
- Chinese 土地 ground; soil; land #517
- Croatian tlo #2,368
- Dutch aarde earth, soil, ground #643
- English park A tract of ground kept in its natural state,… #920
- Esperanto grundo ground, dirt, soil #2,335
- Finnish maahan ground, land #860
- French terrain ground, landscape #1,224
- Galician terreo #1,365
- Georgian მიწები ground, land #1,253
- German grund ground, land #458
- Greek έδαφος #1,204
- Hindi पृथ्वी #540
- Icelandic land land, earth, ground #573
- Indonesian darat #2,262
- Italian terra #405
- Korean 지하 below ground #1,442
- Latvian zemes ground, land, mainland #400
- Malay coklat Food made from ground roasted cocoa beans #1,116
- Norwegian jorden earth, soil, ground #937
- Persian پرت thrown to the ground #629
- Portuguese chão ground, soil, earth #729
- Romanian pământ earth, ground #624
- Spanish suelo dirt, earth, ground, soil #876
- Swedish mark ground, or the area beneath it #906
- Tagalog lupa earth; ground; soil #253
- Tamil காரணம் reason, ground #198
- Telugu భూమి land, soil, ground #236
- Turkish geleni suslik, ground squirrel, spermophile, any of… #914
- Urdu میدان ground, field, arena #786
- Vietnamese ngã to fall on the ground while standing on it in… #1,247
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.