How to say “large” in 51 different 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.
“large” in French: important · Portuguese: grande
It is commonest in Malay, where besar is the 150th most used word.
Large in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans groot/χrʊət/ great; big; large #128
- Albanian madh/mað/ big, large #170
- Arabic كبير/ka.biːr/ big, large #174
- Armenian մեծ/met͡s/ big, large #76
- Basque handi/handi/ big, large #268
- Bengali বড়/bɔɽo/ big, large #661
- Bosnian velika/ˈvɛlɪkɐ/ big, large #469
- Bulgarian голям[ɡoˈlʲa̟m] big, large #374
- Catalan gran[ˈɡɾan] big, large #158
- Chinese 大量/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ li̯ɑŋ⁵¹/ in a large quantity; in a large number #676
- Croatian velika/ˈvɛlɪkɐ/ big, large #476
- Danish stor/stoːˀr/ #255
- Dutch grote/ˈɣroːtə/ big, large, great #247
- English much/mʌt͡ʃ/ A large amount of #134
- Esperanto granda/ˈɡranda/ big, large #157
- Estonian kuule/ˈkuːle/ A large luminous celestial body seen from the… #197
- Finnish iso/ˈiso/ big, large, great #405
- French important/ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/ large, considerable, significant #464
- Galician grande/ˈɡɾande/ #229
- Georgian დიდი[d̥idi] big, large, great #66
- German große/ˈɡʁoːsə/ big, large, large-scale #456
- Greek μεγάλη/meˈɣali/ big, large, great #283
- Hebrew גדול/ɡaˈdol/ big, large #188
- Hindi बड़ा/bə.ɽɑː/ big, large, huge #312
- Hungarian mekkora[ˈmɛkːorɒ] how large? what size? #1,427
- Icelandic miklu/ˈmɪhklʏ/ large in quantity or number #332
- Indonesian besar/bəˈsar/ big, large #130
- Italian grandi/ˈɡran.di/ big, large #833
- Korean 큰[kxɯn] to be big, large #130
- Latvian liels[ˈlīɛ̄ls] big, large #300
- Lithuanian daugybė[dɒʊ¹ˈɡʲiːbʲeː] large quantity #812
- Macedonian голема[ˈɡɔlɛma] big, large, great #246
- Malay besar/bəˈsa(r)/ large; huge #150
- Malayalam വലിയ/ʋɐlijɐ/ big; large #50
- Norwegian mye/²myːə/ Existing in large quantities: lots of, a lot,… #114
- Persian شد[ʃód̪̥] to become; a light verb used in a large… #42
- Polish wielki/ˈvjɛl.ki/ great, large #682
- Portuguese grande/ˈɡɾɐ̃.d͡ʒi/ large; great; big #173
- Romanian mare/ˈma.re/ big, large, great #122
- Russian большой[bɐlʲˈʂoj] big, large, great #511
- Serbian velika/ˈvɛlɪkɐ/ big, large #467
- Slovenian velik/ʋɛ̀ːlik/ big, large #281
- Spanish grande/ˈɡɾande/ big, large #397
- Swedish stor/stuːr/ big, large; of large size #285
- Tagalog malaki/malaˈki/ big; large #265
- Tamil பெரிய/pɛɾɪjɐ/ big, large #84
- Telugu పెద్ద/ped̪ːa/ great, big, large #86
- Turkish büyük[byˈjyc] big, grand, large #78
- Ukrainian великий[ʋeˈɫɪkei̯] big, large #437
- Urdu بڑا/bə.ɽɑː/ big, large, huge #168
- Vietnamese lớn[ləːn˧˦] big; large #282
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