How to say “movement” in 37 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 Hebrew, where לי is the 9th most used word.
- Arabic حركة instance noun of حَرُكَ: an instance of… #768
- Armenian ընթացք movement, course, development #775
- Basque mugimendu #837
- Bengali অগ্রগতি advancement, forward movement, progressive… #1,974
- Bulgarian движение movement, motion, stirring #1,151
- Catalan para to stop from continuing movement or action #665
- Czech pohyb motion, movement #929
- Danish hen Used with a verb, indicating a movement… #203
- Dutch actie action, activity, movement; especially a… #1,404
- English wait To delay movement or action until some event… #158
- Esperanto movado #2,138
- Finnish liikettä motion, movement #1,169
- French mouvement #2,010
- Galician movemento #673
- German wind wind; the movement of air usually caused by… #1,529
- Greek κίνηση #890
- Hebrew לי Indicating the destination of movement #9
- Hindi चलो #76
- Hungarian mozgás #824
- Icelandic utan relating to movement from the outside to the… #321
- Indonesian langkah pace: an advance or movement made from one… #850
- Italian mossa #1,389
- Korean 짓 a physical act or movement #475
- Macedonian потег move, movement #1,164
- Malay gerak movement; motion; action #877
- Malayalam നീക്കം #605
- Polish do denotes allative movement; to, toward #11
- Portuguese movimento #1,545
- Romanian opri to stop the movement of something #696
- Russian ход motion, movement, travel, progress,… #1,991
- Slovak pokoj the state without movement or activity, rest #499
- Slovenian gibanje #1,148
- Spanish movimiento #1,357
- Tagalog kilos movement; motion; move; moving #796
- Tamil இயக்கம் movement, motion, moving about, function,… #509
- Ukrainian рух #1,934
- Urdu تحریک motion, movement #1,418
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.