How to say “much” in 52 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 Hungarian, where de is the 10th most used word.
- Afrikaans baie very, much #62
- Albanian sa how much #58
- Arabic كم how many?, how much? #96
- Armenian այնքան that much, that long #106
- Basque oso very, much #21
- Bengali এত so much, this much #172
- Bosnian koliko how much, how many #112
- Bulgarian толкова this much, that much, as much, this many,… #73
- Catalan tant so much, as much #144
- Chinese 很多 many; much; a lot #51
- Croatian koliko how much, how many #115
- Czech kolik how much, how many #312
- Dutch veel many, much, a lot of #112
- English little Not much #120
- Esperanto tiom that much, so much #108
- Estonian võrra about, amount, by, much #1,831
- Finnish paljon a lot, plenty, much #87
- French peu little; not very much/many #115
- Galician moito much, a lot, lots #103
- Georgian ბევრი many, much #144
- German viel much, a lot #127
- Greek τόσο so, such, so much #79
- Hebrew כמה How much, how many #59
- Hindi अधिक #159
- Hungarian de how!, very much #10
- Icelandic of too; too much; overly #101
- Indonesian berapa how many, how much #212
- Italian molto much, very much, a lot #77
- Korean 그렇게 so, so much #53
- Latvian daudz much, a lot; adverbial form of daudzi #75
- Lithuanian daug much, a lot #85
- Macedonian колку how much, how #87
- Malay banyak many, much, a lot #89
- Malayalam അത്ര that much #128
- Norwegian høyt highly, very much #738
- Persian چند how many, how much #89
- Polish wiele many, much #211
- Portuguese muito much; many; a lot of; lots of #33
- Romanian mult #65
- Russian очень very, really, much, very much #61
- Serbian koliko how much, how many #111
- Slovak veľa much, many #106
- Slovenian koliko how much, how many #139
- Spanish mucho much, a lot of #103
- Swedish mycket much, a lot #84
- Tagalog marami many; plenty; much; abundant #149
- Tamil அனைத்து so much, thus far #37
- Telugu ఎంత how much #127
- Turkish çok much, many, plenty, a lot #10
- Ukrainian дуже very, much, very much #62
- Urdu بہت many, much #44
- Vietnamese nhiều many, much; a lot #107
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.