How to say “innocent” in 31 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 Armenian, where անմեղ is the 540th most used word.
- Arabic بريء pure, guiltless, innocent #1,508
- Armenian անմեղ innocent, guiltless #540
- Bosnian nevin #1,998
- Catalan innocent #1,234
- Chinese 天真 naive; innocent; artless #2,171
- Croatian nevin #1,945
- Czech nevinný #2,261
- Danish uskyldig #1,411
- Dutch onschuldig #1,286
- Estonian süütu #1,036
- Finnish syytön innocent; not guilty #2,286
- French innocent an innocent person #1,885
- Galician inocente innocent; blameless #1,551
- German unschuldig #1,893
- Greek αθώος innocent, lacking guilt #1,938
- Hebrew טהור pure; clean; innocent #2,068
- Hindi निर्दोष blameless, innocent #1,872
- Hungarian ártatlan #1,156
- Icelandic saklaus innocent, blameless #1,102
- Italian innocente #1,614
- Latvian nevainīgs innocent, not guilty #2,331
- Macedonian невин #1,374
- Norwegian uskyldig #1,275
- Portuguese inocente #1,447
- Romanian nevinovat #1,509
- Serbian nevin #1,882
- Spanish inocente #1,360
- Swedish oskyldig #1,415
- Tagalog inosente innocent; guiltless #1,177
- Turkish masum #1,015
- Urdu معصوم #972
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.