How to say “large” in 51 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 Persian, where شد is the 42nd most used word.
- Afrikaans groot great; big; large #128
- Albanian madh big, large #170
- Arabic كبير big, large #174
- Armenian մեծ big, large #76
- Basque handi big, large #268
- Bengali বড় big, large #661
- Bosnian velika big, large #469
- Bulgarian голям big, large #374
- Catalan gran big, large #158
- Chinese 大量 in a large quantity; in a large number #676
- Croatian velika big, large #476
- Danish stor #255
- Dutch grote big, large, great #247
- English much A large amount of #134
- Esperanto granda big, large #157
- Estonian kuule A large luminous celestial body seen from the… #197
- Finnish iso big, large, great #405
- French important large, considerable, significant #464
- Galician grande #229
- Georgian დიდი big, large, great #66
- German große big, large, large-scale #456
- Greek μεγάλη big, large, great #283
- Hebrew גדול big, large #188
- Hindi बड़ा big, large, huge #312
- Hungarian mekkora how large? what size? #1,427
- Icelandic miklu large in quantity or number #332
- Indonesian besar big, large #130
- Italian grandi big, large #833
- Korean 큰 to be big, large #130
- Latvian liels big, large #300
- Lithuanian daugybė large quantity #812
- Macedonian голема big, large, great #246
- Malay besar large; huge #150
- Malayalam വലിയ big; large #50
- Norwegian mye Existing in large quantities: lots of, a lot,… #114
- Persian شد to become; a light verb used in a large… #42
- Polish wielki great, large #682
- Portuguese grande large; great; big #173
- Romanian mare big, large, great #122
- Russian большой big, large, great #511
- Serbian velika big, large #467
- Slovenian velik big, large #281
- Spanish grande big, large #397
- Swedish stor big, large; of large size #285
- Tagalog malaki big; large #265
- Tamil பெரிய big, large #84
- Telugu పెద్ద great, big, large #86
- Turkish büyük big, grand, large #78
- Ukrainian великий big, large #437
- Urdu بڑا big, large, huge #168
- Vietnamese lớn big; large #282
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.