How to say “hate” in 38 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 Turkish, where nefret is the 301st most used word.
- Afrikaans gehaat to hate #2,337
- Albanian urrej to hate #550
- Arabic بغض to hate, to detest, to loathe #1,358
- Basque gorrotatu to hate #1,221
- Bengali বিদ্বেষ hatred, hate #2,402
- Bosnian mrzi to hate #1,410
- Catalan odio to hate #1,441
- Chinese 仇恨 to hate #1,630
- Croatian mrzi to hate #1,445
- Danish hader to hate #431
- Dutch haat to hate #593
- Esperanto malamas to hate, dislike #656
- Estonian vihkama to hate #2,411
- French déteste to hate, to detest #743
- Galician odio #754
- German hasse to hate #847
- Greek μισώ to hate #835
- Hebrew איב to be hostile to, to hate, to be an enemy to #2,397
- Hungarian utálom to hate #1,014
- Icelandic hata to hate #483
- Indonesian membenci to hate #1,356
- Italian odia to hate, to detest, to loathe #2,449
- Lithuanian nekenčiu to hate #486
- Macedonian мразам to hate, loathe, resent, detest #493
- Malayalam വെറുപ്പ് #1,114
- Norwegian hater to hate #491
- Persian تنفر #2,285
- Polish nienawidzę to hate #1,020
- Portuguese odeio to hate, to loathe #1,180
- Romanian urăsc to hate #796
- Serbian mrzi to hate #1,400
- Slovak nenávisť hatred, hate #1,446
- Slovenian sovražiti to hate #1,692
- Spanish odio hate, hatred, loathing #672
- Swedish hatar to hate #540
- Tamil வெறுப்பு hatred, hate, dislike, enmity #1,282
- Turkish nefret hate, hatred #301
- Urdu نفرت hate, hatred #489
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.