How to say “image” in 37 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 Vietnamese, where hình is the 275th most used word.
- Afrikaans prent image; picture; graphic #1,511
- Basque irudi picture, image #631
- Bengali মূর্তি image, form, appearance #1,384
- Bosnian slike picture, image #737
- Bulgarian представа mental image #564
- Catalan imatge #1,372
- Chinese 形象 #1,189
- Croatian slike picture, image #784
- Czech obraz picture, painting, image #1,635
- Danish billede picture, image #725
- Dutch beeld #1,321
- English imagine To form a mental image of something; to… #767
- Esperanto formo form, shape, image #1,458
- French image picture, image #1,470
- Galician imaxe #803
- German vorstellung idea, image, representation #2,131
- Greek εικόνα picture, image, painting, illustration,… #1,154
- Hebrew דמות An image, a picture, a likeness #1,758
- Hungarian képet picture, image #1,038
- Icelandic myndir image, picture #334
- Italian immagini #1,968
- Korean 영상 picture, image, video #1,153
- Lithuanian paveikslas #1,959
- Macedonian слика image, picture, painting #527
- Malay cermin surface that reflects the image of other… #1,016
- Malayalam നിഴൽ shadow; A dark image cast upon a surface by a… #1,901
- Norwegian bilde picture, image #811
- Polish obraz #1,651
- Portuguese imagem image; picture; figure #1,483
- Romanian imagine #1,650
- Serbian slike picture, image #739
- Slovak obraz image, picture, painting #765
- Slovenian slika picture, image #529
- Spanish imagen #1,500
- Telugu బొమ్మ An image, picture, painting #954
- Urdu تصویر image, picture, photograph #408
- Vietnamese hình #275
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.