How to say “mine” 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 Tagalog, where ko is the 6th most used word.
- Afrikaans myne #281
- Albanian im my, of mine #74
- Basque meatze #2,336
- Bengali খনি #1,161
- Bosnian moj my, mine #67
- Bulgarian моята my, mine #242
- Catalan meu my, mine #42
- Chinese 布雷 to set a mine #2,034
- Croatian moj my, mine #70
- Czech můj my, mine #77
- Danish min mine 1.st person singular possessive pronoun #39
- Esperanto mia my, mine #26
- French mien mine, my own #1,223
- Galician miña mine, my #44
- Georgian ჩემი my, mine, singular first person possessive… #21
- German meine #62
- Greek δικό mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs #227
- Hindi खान mine, quarry #1,042
- Hungarian enyém #419
- Icelandic minn my, mine #49
- Indonesian tambang mine: an excavation from which ore or solid… #1,877
- Italian mio my; of mine #40
- Korean 광산 #2,080
- Latvian mans my, mine #70
- Lithuanian mano my, mine #19
- Macedonian мој my, mine #189
- Malay lombong mine, place from which ore is extracted #1,694
- Malayalam ഖനി mine; an excavation from which ores and… #2,241
- Norwegian min my, mine #45
- Persian معدن mine, quarry #1,635
- Polish mój first person possessive pronoun; my, mine #75
- Romanian mea #59
- Russian мой my, mine #77
- Serbian moj my, mine #75
- Slovak môj my, mine #60
- Slovenian rudnik #1,385
- Spanish mío mine; of mine #223
- Tagalog ko my; mine #6
- Tamil கண்ணிவெடி land mine, sea mine #2,065
- Telugu గని #241
- Ukrainian моя my, mine #81
- Urdu میری first-person singular possessive pronoun: mine #54
- Vietnamese mìn mine; dynamite #2,366
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.