How to say “much” in 52 different 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.
“much” in Spanish: mucho · German: viel · Italian: molto · Portuguese: muito · Hindi: अधिक · Turkish: çok
It is commonest in Turkish, where çok is the 10th most used word.
Much in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans baie/ˈbɑjə/ very, much #62
- Albanian sa/sa/ how much #58
- Arabic كم/kam/ how many?, how much? #96
- Armenian այնքան/ɑjnˈkʰɑn/ that much, that long #106
- Basque oso/os̻o/ very, much #21
- Bengali এত/æt̪o/ so much, this much #172
- Bosnian koliko/kolǐko/ how much, how many #112
- Bulgarian толкова[ˈtɔɫkovɐ] this much, that much, as much, this many,… #73
- Catalan tant[ˈtan] so much, as much #144
- Chinese 很多/xən²¹⁴⁻²¹ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵/ many; much; a lot #51
- Croatian koliko/kolǐko/ how much, how many #115
- Czech kolik[ˈkolɪk] how much, how many #312
- Dutch veel/veːl/ many, much, a lot of #112
- English little/ˈlɪ.tl̩/ Not much #120
- Esperanto tiom/ˈtiom/ that much, so much #108
- Estonian võrra/ˈvɤrːɑ/ about, amount, by, much #1,831
- Finnish paljon/ˈpɑljon/ a lot, plenty, much #87
- French peu/pø/ little; not very much/many #115
- Galician moito/ˈmojto/ much, a lot, lots #103
- Georgian ბევრი[b̥e̞vɾi] many, much #144
- German viel/fiːl/ much, a lot #127
- Greek τόσο/ˈtoso/ so, such, so much #79
- Hebrew כמה/ˈka.ma/ How much, how many #59
- Hindi अधिक/ə.d̪ʱɪk/ #159
- Hungarian de[ˈdɛ] how!, very much #10
- Icelandic of[ˈɔːv] too; too much; overly #101
- Indonesian berapa/bəˈrapa/ how many, how much #212
- Italian molto/ˈmol.to/ much, very much, a lot #77
- Korean 그렇게[kɯɾʌ̹kʰe̞] so, so much #53
- Latvian daudz[ˈdāū̯d͡z] much, a lot; adverbial form of daudzi #75
- Lithuanian daug[²ˈdɒʊˑk] much, a lot #85
- Macedonian колку[ˈkɔɫku] how much, how #87
- Malay banyak/ˈbaɲak/ many, much, a lot #89
- Malayalam അത്ര/ɐt̪rɐ/ that much #128
- Norwegian høyt/ˈhœ͡ʏt/ highly, very much #738
- Persian چند[t͡ʃʰæn̪d̪̥] how many, how much #89
- Polish wiele/ˈvjɛ.lɛ/ many, much #211
- Portuguese muito/ˈmũj̃.tu/ much; many; a lot of; lots of #33
- Romanian mult/mult/ #65
- Russian очень[ˈot͡ɕɪnʲ] very, really, much, very much #61
- Serbian koliko/kolǐko/ how much, how many #111
- Slovak veľa/veʎa/ much, many #106
- Slovenian koliko/kòːlikɔ/ how much, how many #139
- Spanish mucho/ˈmut͡ʃo/ much, a lot of #103
- Swedish mycket/ˈmʏˌkɛ(t)/ much, a lot #84
- Tagalog marami/maˈɾami/ many; plenty; much; abundant #149
- Tamil அனைத்து/ɐnɐɪ̯t̪ːɯ/ so much, thus far #37
- Telugu ఎంత/en̪t̪a/ how much #127
- Turkish çok[tʃɔk] much, many, plenty, a lot #10
- Ukrainian дуже[ˈduʒe] very, much, very much #62
- Urdu بہت/bə.ɦoːt̪/ many, much #44
- Vietnamese nhiều[ɲiəw˨˩] many, much; a lot #107
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.