How to say “group” in 49 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 English, where they is the 42nd most used word.
- Afrikaans groep #752
- Albanian aksion group work project carried out by volunteers #1,806
- Arabic ثلاث three at a time, in a group of three, in… #303
- Basque talde #338
- Bengali দল group, team, band, gang, clan, party #350
- Bosnian grupa #1,187
- Bulgarian група #762
- Catalan parell matching; a group of two with the same… #553
- Chinese 一群 a group #534
- Croatian grupa #1,483
- Czech skupina #1,622
- Danish gruppe A group, a unit, a team #1,288
- Dutch groep #888
- English they A group of entities previously mentioned #42
- Esperanto grupo #1,384
- Estonian rühm group, team #1,304
- Finnish ryhmä #2,036
- French groupe #693
- Galician grupo #526
- German team group of people working together for a… #867
- Greek ομάδα group, bunch, gang #364
- Hebrew קבוצה #1,119
- Hindi समूह #935
- Hungarian csapat group, troop, crew, flock #806
- Icelandic sveit group, band, team #1,631
- Indonesian berdua to be in a group of two #277
- Italian gruppo group, cluster, party, team, covey #731
- Korean 을 B; used to enumerate the second of a group of… #409
- Latvian grupa #1,391
- Lithuanian grupė #921
- Macedonian група #621
- Malay kelas a group, collection, category or set sharing… #548
- Malayalam കൂട്ടം #415
- Norwegian gruppe a group #1,614
- Persian گروه #284
- Polish grupa #1,559
- Portuguese grupo #704
- Romanian grup a group #1,068
- Russian группа #1,480
- Serbian grupa #1,173
- Slovenian skupina #539
- Spanish grupo #681
- Swedish grupp #1,269
- Tagalog grupo #913
- Tamil குழு team, group; committee; commission #311
- Turkish grup #889
- Ukrainian група #1,556
- Urdu گروپ #341
- Vietnamese bọn group; gang; cohorts; associates #143
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.