How to say “movie” in 31 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 സിനിമ is the 252nd most used word.
- Albanian film #817
- Arabic فيلم film, movie #455
- Bengali মুভি movie, film #943
- Bulgarian филм film, movie, motion picture #705
- Chinese 片子 film; movie #1,937
- Czech film movie, film, motion picture #963
- Danish film a movie, a film, motion picture #644
- Dutch video video, movie #1,391
- Esperanto filmo film, movie, motion picture #792
- Finnish elokuva movie, film, motion picture #2,110
- French film movie, film #521
- Galician filme film; movie; motion picture #308
- Georgian კინო #1,098
- Greek ταινία film, movie #608
- Hungarian film film, movie, motion picture, picture #1,426
- Icelandic kvikmynd movie, motion picture #1,730
- Italian film film, movie #518
- Korean 영화 movie, film #411
- Latvian filma #1,642
- Lithuanian filmas film, movie #488
- Malayalam സിനിമ cinema, movie #252
- Persian فیلم film, movie #701
- Polish film film, movie, motion picture #778
- Portuguese filme film; movie; motion picture #613
- Romanian film movie, film #727
- Russian фильм film, movie #944
- Slovenian grozljivka horror movie #2,358
- Tagalog pelikula film; movie; motion picture #698
- Telugu హీరో the male lead of a movie #1,023
- Ukrainian фільм film, movie #832
- Urdu فلم film, movie #1,308
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.