How to say “guess” 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 Slovak, where asi is the 105th most used word.
- Afrikaans raai to guess #1,112
- Albanian supozoj to guess, hypothesize #1,232
- Arabic وهم to conjecture, to guess, to presume, to ween,… #544
- Basque igarri to know, to guess, to find out #1,058
- Bengali আন্দাজ guess, conjecture #1,527
- Czech asi I guess/I think #124
- Danish gætte to guess, surmise #1,747
- Dutch raad to guess #926
- Finnish kai probably, I guess #123
- French devine to guess; to work out, figure out #2,190
- Greek υποθέτω to suppose, guess #466
- Hindi अनुमान estimate, guess, inference, hypothesis #1,443
- Hungarian képzeld guess what #2,176
- Icelandic giska to guess #1,337
- Indonesian tebak #1,414
- Italian indovinare to guess #2,476
- Latvian minēt to guess #1,777
- Macedonian погодок #1,793
- Malay teka to guess #1,161
- Malayalam ഊഹം #955
- Norwegian aner guess, sense #608
- Persian حدس guess, assumption, estimate #458
- Portuguese adivinhar to guess #2,245
- Romanian ghici to guess #1,685
- Slovak asi I guess, I think #105
- Swedish gissa to guess #1,104
- Tagalog hula guess; conjecture; surmise #1,400
- Telugu అంచనా guess, conjecture #165
- Turkish tahmin guess, speculation #516
- Vietnamese đoán to guess; to predict; to surmise; to divine #520
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.