How to say “man” 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 Swedish, where en is the 7th most used word.
- Albanian njerëz #160
- Arabic وجه to be a man of distinction, to be notable #462
- Armenian տղամարդ man, adult male #476
- Basque gizon #76
- Bengali পুরুষ #622
- Bosnian momci a young man, lad #315
- Bulgarian гей gay man, homosexual man #1,060
- Catalan home #98
- Chinese 男人 #56
- Croatian čovjek man, person #204
- Czech muž #351
- Danish mand #117
- Dutch man man, human male, either adult or… #99
- English sir A man of a higher rank or position #147
- Esperanto viro #282
- Estonian mees #104
- Finnish mies #124
- French homme #155
- Georgian გეი gay man #171
- German mann man, male human being #102
- Greek άνθρωποι a human; person; the species man #280
- Hebrew אדם man, human #150
- Hindi पुरुष man, male #268
- Hungarian férfi #320
- Icelandic manneskja a human being, a person, a man #709
- Indonesian pria man, boy #149
- Italian uomo person, man #157
- Korean 남자 #227
- Latvian puiši young man, youth, boy #326
- Lithuanian vyras #197
- Macedonian маж #323
- Malay manusia human; human being; person; people; man #214
- Malayalam ഭ്രാന്തൻ mad man #1,316
- Norwegian mann #150
- Persian مردی #1,003
- Polish ludzie man, human, human being; person #150
- Portuguese senhor a man #154
- Romanian bărbat #505
- Russian человек person, human being, man #179
- Serbian čovek man, person #224
- Slovak ľudia person, man #110
- Slovenian mož #215
- Spanish hombre #121
- Swedish en object form of the indefinite pronoun man #7
- Tagalog tao human; human being; person; man #52
- Tamil மனிதன் man, human, person #67
- Telugu పురుషులు #218
- Turkish delikanlı young man #2,288
- Ukrainian чоловік #255
- Urdu آدمی #85
- Vietnamese kẻ individual, person, man; specifically, put… #210
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.