How to say “move” in 50 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 Hindi, where गया is the 33rd most used word.
- Afrikaans beweeg to move, to be in motion, to stir #341
- Albanian lëviz to move, set in motion, transfer #290
- Arabic أخرج to move out, take out, dislodge #366
- Armenian շարժվել to move #394
- Basque ibili to move, to be in motion #143
- Bengali চলা to move, to walk about, to move about #1,245
- Bosnian kreni to move, set in motion #853
- Bulgarian седна to move oneself into a sitting position, to… #2,018
- Catalan moure to move #1,132
- Chinese 快點 Hurry up! Get a move on!; Quickly! #490
- Croatian krenuti to move, set in motion #908
- Czech hnout to move #2,024
- Danish flytte move, remove #793
- Dutch ga to go, to move from one place to another #62
- English go To move through space #47
- Esperanto moviĝu to move #818
- Estonian liikuma to move to change one's position or location,… #918
- Finnish laske to lower, move down #1,406
- French bouge to move #780
- Galician mover to move #1,934
- German verschwunden to disappear, to vanish, to move out of view #1,102
- Greek πάρει to take, get, move #232
- Hebrew פעולה an action, a move #772
- Hindi गया to go, move, travel, leave, depart; to… #33
- Hungarian szabad free to move or act according to one's will #397
- Icelandic flytja to move, to relocate #544
- Indonesian bergerak to move #309
- Italian sbrigati get a move on!, get moving!, come on! #1,727
- Latvian līdzi used to indicate somebody move together with… #245
- Lithuanian juda to move #755
- Macedonian движи to move #836
- Malay alih to shift, to turn, to move #803
- Malayalam നീങ്ങുക to move #2,032
- Norwegian kom to come; to approach or move towards the… #47
- Polish ruszaj to move #911
- Portuguese mexer to move, to mess with, to put your hands on #1,757
- Romanian mutat to move, shift #1,087
- Russian двигаться to move #1,417
- Serbian kreni to move, set in motion #902
- Slovak smeruje to move, to head #1,600
- Slovenian oditi to go, to move further away #283
- Spanish mueve to move #2,144
- Swedish ta take; to grab and move to oneself #59
- Tagalog kilos movement; motion; move; moving #796
- Tamil நகர்த்து to move #437
- Telugu తరలించు to cause to move, march #293
- Turkish gel to come, move closer #130
- Ukrainian рухатися to move #1,604
- Urdu چلانا to cause to walk; to move #1,236
- Vietnamese máy to move around #245
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.