How to say “line” in 46 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 Macedonian, where ред is the 56th most used word.
- Albanian vijë #348
- Arabic خط to draw a line #665
- Basque lerro line, queue, string #826
- Bengali দাগ #819
- Bosnian linija #1,674
- Bulgarian наред sequentially, in order, in line, in turn,… #175
- Catalan línia #897
- Chinese 一句 a line of verse #436
- Croatian linija #1,819
- Danish række row, line, rank; things arranged spatially #1,532
- Dutch regels line of writing, verse; straight line to… #890
- English along By the length of; in a line with the length… #523
- Esperanto vico queue, line, file, row #1,055
- Estonian piiri A conventional line and the area surrounding… #1,110
- French ligne #814
- Galician liña #750
- Georgian ხაზი #729
- Greek γραμμές #2,070
- Hebrew קו #868
- Hindi लाइन #597
- Hungarian egyenesen in a straight line #1,059
- Icelandic beita to bait a fishing line #1,348
- Indonesian bohong not in line with reality and truth; untrue,… #777
- Italian linea #1,021
- Latvian rindā row, line, queue #1,849
- Lithuanian eilė line, string, row #650
- Macedonian ред line, string, row #56
- Malay garis line, dash, stripe #1,276
- Malayalam രേഖ #1,106
- Norwegian rekker a row or line #1,493
- Persian خط #425
- Polish linii #1,766
- Portuguese linha #759
- Romanian linia to line #1,179
- Russian очередь queue, line #1,184
- Serbian linija #1,799
- Slovak pointa punch line #1,664
- Slovenian vrsta queue, line #614
- Spanish línea #802
- Swedish rad a row; a line of entries in a table, or a… #2,289
- Tagalog linya #577
- Telugu గీతలు a line #872
- Turkish çizgi line; a path through two or more points; a… #1,783
- Ukrainian курс course, policy, line, route #1,685
- Urdu قطار queue, line, row #892
- Vietnamese câu sentence; expression; line #256
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.