How to say “morning” 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 Malayalam, where രാവിലെ is the 156th most used word.
- Afrikaans goeiemôre good morning #893
- Albanian mëngjes #333
- Arabic أصبح to enter upon morning #269
- Armenian առավոտյան in the morning #489
- Basque goiz #429
- Bengali সকাল #351
- Bosnian jutro #420
- Bulgarian сутрин in the morning #498
- Chinese 早上 early morning #193
- Croatian jutro #410
- Czech ráno in the morning #286
- Danish morgen #215
- Dutch goedemorgen good morning #868
- Esperanto matenon #488
- Estonian hommikul #419
- Finnish huomenta good morning #562
- French matin #374
- Georgian დილით in the morning #566
- German morgens in the morning, a.m #1,752
- Greek πρωί #355
- Hebrew בוקר A morning, dawn #324
- Hindi सुबह in the morning #362
- Hungarian reggel in the morning #336
- Icelandic morgun a morning #178
- Indonesian pagi #260
- Italian mattina #796
- Korean 아침 #286
- Latvian labrīt polite greeting, used in the morning; good… #503
- Lithuanian rytas #303
- Macedonian утро #346
- Malay pagi #276
- Malayalam രാവിലെ #156
- Norwegian morgen #178
- Persian صبح #198
- Polish rano in the morning #446
- Portuguese manhã #371
- Russian утром in the morning #492
- Serbian jutro #402
- Slovenian zjutraj in the morning #231
- Swedish morgon #247
- Tagalog umaga #242
- Turkish sabah in the morning #302
- Ukrainian вранці in the morning #773
- Urdu صبح in the morning #344
- Vietnamese sáng #283
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.