How to say “message” in 43 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 消息 is the 169th most used word.
- Afrikaans boodskap #559
- Albanian mesazh #650
- Basque mezu #468
- Bosnian poruku #558
- Bulgarian съобщение announcement, message, communication #720
- Catalan missatge #603
- Chinese 消息 message; news; information #169
- Croatian poruku #579
- Czech zprávy #691
- Danish besked #516
- Dutch boodschap #1,265
- Esperanto mesaĝon #1,984
- Estonian sõnum #1,116
- Finnish viesti #1,075
- French message #656
- Galician mensaxe #929
- German botschaft #2,072
- Greek μήνυμα #597
- Hindi संदेश #568
- Hungarian üzenetet #918
- Icelandic skilaboð #1,863
- Italian messaggio #700
- Korean 메시지 #1,036
- Latvian ziņu #499
- Lithuanian žinutė #1,604
- Macedonian порака #432
- Malay pesanan #816
- Malayalam സന്ദേശം #383
- Norwegian beskjed #733
- Persian پیام alternative form of پیغام: message #1,432
- Polish wiadomość message, piece of news, piece of information #563
- Portuguese mensagem #680
- Romanian mesaj #763
- Russian сообщение report, communication, message #820
- Serbian poruku #580
- Slovak správa #525
- Slovenian sporočilo #278
- Spanish mensaje #684
- Swedish sms text message, an SMS message #1,856
- Tagalog mensahe #1,130
- Turkish mesaj #593
- Ukrainian повідомлення #757
- Urdu پیغام #338
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.