How to say “information” in 46 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 thấy is the 61st most used word.
- Albanian informacion #1,104
- Arabic معلومات #495
- Armenian լուր news; report; information; tidings #321
- Basque informazio #621
- Bengali তথ্য information, data #374
- Bosnian informacija #1,423
- Bulgarian информация #497
- Catalan informació #616
- Chinese 消息 message; news; information #169
- Croatian informacija #1,535
- Czech informace #780
- Danish information #1,593
- Dutch informatie #619
- English record An item of information put into a temporary… #901
- Estonian informatsioon #2,251
- French informations piece of information] #1,290
- Galician información #820
- Georgian ცნობა information, notice, news #1,105
- German bescheid notification, information #963
- Greek πληροφορίες #691
- Hebrew מידע Information, data #525
- Hindi जानकारी information, knowledge, data #671
- Hungarian hír news, information #885
- Indonesian petunjuk information which may lead one to a certain… #945
- Italian informazioni #830
- Korean 보고 report, information #121
- Latvian informāciju #767
- Lithuanian informacija #904
- Macedonian информација #942
- Malay maklumat #460
- Malayalam നുണ lie, false information, intentional untruth #262
- Norwegian informasjon #928
- Persian اطلاعات information, data #376
- Polish informacje #1,082
- Portuguese informação #812
- Russian информация #1,562
- Serbian informacija #1,499
- Slovak informácia #1,761
- Spanish información information, data #650
- Swedish information #824
- Tagalog balita information; news; report; tidings #541
- Tamil தகவல் #216
- Telugu సమాచారము news, information, tidings, report,… #1,559
- Turkish bilgi #586
- Ukrainian дані data, facts, information #2,119
- Vietnamese thấy to succeed in gathering information through… #61
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.