How to say “judge” in 42 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 Chinese, where 法官 is the 410th most used word.
- Albanian gjykatës judge, magistrate #1,774
- Basque epaile #764
- Bengali বিচারক judge, justice #1,230
- Bosnian sudija #1,701
- Bulgarian съдия #1,458
- Catalan jutge #1,481
- Chinese 法官 judge; justice #410
- Croatian sudac #1,447
- Czech soudce #1,495
- Danish dommer #1,320
- English daniel A wise judge, like the biblical Daniel who… #1,658
- Esperanto juĝisto #1,755
- Finnish tuomari judge, justice #1,320
- French juge #929
- Galician xuíz #1,466
- German richter #1,296
- Greek δικαστής #1,822
- Hebrew שופט #1,603
- Hungarian bíró #985
- Icelandic dæmi to judge #1,122
- Italian giudice judge, magistrate #1,236
- Korean 판사 #2,401
- Latvian tiesnesis #1,573
- Lithuanian teisėjas #1,212
- Macedonian судија #1,525
- Malayalam ജഡ്ജി #949
- Norwegian dømt to judge #1,845
- Persian قاضی #2,363
- Polish sądzę to judge; to try #415
- Portuguese juiz #1,392
- Romanian judecător #1,457
- Russian судья #1,729
- Serbian sudija #1,363
- Slovak sudca #944
- Slovenian sodnik #560
- Spanish juez #1,186
- Swedish domare a judge #1,825
- Tagalog husgahan to judge; to pass judgement #1,545
- Tamil நீதிபதி #1,113
- Turkish yargıç #965
- Ukrainian суддя #1,919
- Urdu جج #958
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.