How to say “inside” in 52 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 Slovenian, where v is the 5th most used word.
- Afrikaans in in; inside; within #15
- Albanian brenda inside, in #143
- Arabic داخل #276
- Armenian մեջ in, inside #71
- Basque barnean #946
- Bengali ভিতরে #241
- Bosnian unutra inside, indoors, in #278
- Bulgarian в going inside or within the limits of, into,… #13
- Catalan dins in, within, inside #248
- Chinese 出來 to go from inside to outside; to come out #519
- Croatian unutra inside, indoors, in #318
- Czech dovnitř #494
- Danish i in, inside #7
- Dutch in in, inside #13
- English in Contained by; inside #13
- Esperanto en in, within, inside #11
- Estonian sees inside, in #418
- Finnish sisään into, in, inside, inwards #232
- French dans in, inside #33
- Galician dentro #275
- Georgian შიგნით #494
- German in in, inside, within, at #16
- Greek μέσα in, inside #92
- Hebrew בתוך inside, within, in the middle of #348
- Hindi में in, inside of #6
- Hungarian ki out, not inside, from the inside, in an… #27
- Icelandic inn in, inside #70
- Indonesian dalam inside, in, within #42
- Italian dentro inside; indoors #247
- Korean 속 the interior or inside, especially that which… #728
- Latvian iekšā in, inside #163
- Macedonian внатре #227
- Malay dalam inside, in, within #28
- Malayalam അകത്ത് #293
- Norwegian i in, inside of #8
- Persian در at, in, inside, within #10
- Polish wewnątrz #1,742
- Portuguese em in; inside; within #20
- Romanian înăuntru inside, within, in #608
- Russian внутри in or into the interior; inside #689
- Serbian unutra inside, indoors, in #309
- Slovak dnu #296
- Slovenian v in, inside, at #5
- Spanish dentro #318
- Swedish i in; located inside #12
- Tagalog loob inside; interior; inner part #163
- Tamil உள்ள interior, inside #92
- Telugu లో inner, internal, inside #25
- Turkish içinde in, within, inside #163
- Ukrainian всередині inside, within #905
- Urdu اندر #149
- Vietnamese trong in; inside; within #45
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.