How to say “lose” in 45 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 失去 is the 126th most used word.
- Afrikaans verloor to lose #214
- Albanian humbur to lose, misplace #256
- Arabic فقد to lose, to misplace, to miss #218
- Armenian պարտվող to be defeated, to lose #1,081
- Basque galdu to lose #141
- Bosnian izgubiti to lose, misplace #902
- Bulgarian загубя to lose #1,633
- Catalan perdut to lose #387
- Chinese 失去 to lose #126
- Croatian izgubiti to lose, misplace #770
- Czech udržet to hold and not lose #1,324
- Danish mistet to lose #743
- Dutch verloren to lose #614
- English forget To lose remembrance of #383
- Esperanto perdis to lose #361
- Estonian kaotama to lose #2,146
- Finnish menettää to lose #1,338
- French perdu to lose #363
- Galician perder to lose #585
- Georgian წააგო to lose #892
- German verloren to lose #455
- Greek έχασα to lose #799
- Hebrew איבד to lose #1,218
- Hindi खोना to lose #2,386
- Icelandic missa to lose #424
- Indonesian berdarah to bleed: to lose blood #1,234
- Italian perso to lose #414
- Latvian zaudēt to lose #865
- Lithuanian prarasti to lose #1,005
- Macedonian изгуби to lose, misplace #645
- Malay hilang to lose #266
- Norwegian mistet to lose to cease to be in one's possession or… #393
- Polish stracić to lose #1,641
- Portuguese perder to lose #466
- Romanian pierdut to lose #298
- Russian потерять to lose, to waste #1,750
- Serbian izgubila to lose, misplace #965
- Slovenian izgubiti to lose, to not have anymore #644
- Spanish perdido to lose #586
- Swedish förlorade to lose #818
- Tagalog maligaw to get lost; to lose one's way #2,301
- Turkish kaybetmek to lose #1,918
- Ukrainian втратити to lose #2,147
- Urdu کھونا to lose #1,568
- Vietnamese thua to lose #955
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.