How to say “hundred” in 50 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 Bosnian, where sto is the 130th most used word.
- Afrikaans honderd #1,859
- Albanian njëqind one hundred #1,701
- Arabic مئة #1,240
- Armenian հարյուր #364
- Basque ehun #684
- Bengali লাখ hundred thousand, lakh, lac #701
- Bosnian sto #130
- Bulgarian сто #1,566
- Catalan cent #850
- Chinese 一百 one hundred; a hundred #1,364
- Croatian sto #347
- Czech sto #1,562
- Danish hundrede #1,621
- Dutch honderd #1,583
- English century A period of one hundred consecutive years;… #1,878
- Esperanto cent #1,203
- Estonian sada #1,207
- Finnish sata #1,897
- French cent #1,772
- Galician cen one hundred; 100 #1,334
- Greek εκατό hundred, 100 #1,551
- Hebrew מאה hundred, one hundred #879
- Hindi लाख one hundred thousand, lakh #761
- Hungarian száz #1,469
- Indonesian d five hundred #934
- Italian cento hundred, one hundred #1,817
- Korean 백 #978
- Latvian simts #1,822
- Lithuanian šimtas #1,637
- Macedonian сто #1,385
- Malay seratus one hundred #1,603
- Malayalam നൂറ് #800
- Norwegian hundre #1,054
- Persian صد #649
- Polish sto #2,147
- Portuguese centenas #1,926
- Romanian sute a hundred #1,189
- Russian сто #1,514
- Serbian sto #311
- Slovak sto #876
- Slovenian sto #461
- Spanish cien one hundred #1,832
- Swedish hundra hundred; 100 in arabic numerals #1,416
- Tagalog daan #238
- Tamil கணம் one hundred billion #452
- Telugu శతకము #1,732
- Turkish yüz #597
- Ukrainian сто #847
- Urdu صد #1,071
- Vietnamese trăm #1,146
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.