How to say “guest” in 41 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 Chinese, where 客人 is the 352nd most used word.
- Afrikaans gaste #490
- Arabic ضيف #2,338
- Armenian հյուր guest, visitor #990
- Basque ostalari #2,066
- Bengali অতিথি #1,083
- Bosnian gost #2,133
- Bulgarian гост #1,910
- Catalan convidat #1,512
- Chinese 客人 guest; visitor #352
- Croatian gost #2,196
- Czech hosty #2,294
- Danish gæster visitor, guest #1,586
- Dutch gast #931
- Esperanto gastoj #1,221
- French invités #1,828
- Georgian სტუმრები #830
- German gäste #1,778
- Hebrew אורח guest, visitor #1,691
- Hindi मेहमान guest, visitor #2,093
- Icelandic gestur #1,131
- Indonesian tamu guest, visitor #851
- Italian invitato #2,004
- Korean 손님 guest, visitor #804
- Latvian viesi visitor, guest #1,920
- Lithuanian svečias #1,329
- Macedonian гостин #1,890
- Malay tetamu guest; visitor #825
- Malayalam അതിഥി #1,443
- Norwegian gjester a guest #2,120
- Persian مهمون #1,027
- Polish gość #953
- Portuguese convidado #2,353
- Romanian invitat guest, invitee #1,191
- Russian гости guest, visitor #2,250
- Serbian gost #2,060
- Slovak hosť #1,629
- Slovenian gost #940
- Swedish gäster a guest #2,053
- Tagalog bisita visitor; guest #604
- Telugu అతిథులు #1,184
- Urdu مہمان #885
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.