How to say “nice” in 38 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.
“nice” in French: sympa · Italian: bella · Portuguese: simpático · Turkish: hoş
It is commonest in Georgian, where კარგი is the 30th most used word.
Nice in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans lief/ˈlif/ nice, sweet #162
- Albanian këndshëm/kəndʃəm/ pleasant, nice, likable #1,081
- Arabic طيب/tˤaj.jib/ good, wholesome, nice, fine #639
- Armenian սիրունիկ/siɾuˈnik/ cute, nice, pretty #1,634
- Bosnian lepa/ˈlɛpɐ/ nice, pretty #920
- Bulgarian приятен[priˈja̟tɛn] pleasant, enjoyable, nice #1,263
- Catalan amable[əˈmab.blə] kind, nice, friendly #900
- Croatian lijep/ʎêːp/ nice, pretty #937
- Czech pěkný[ˈpjɛkniː] #840
- Danish hyggeligt/ˈhyɡəlid/ nice, friendly #1,193
- Dutch leuk/løːk/ nice, pleasant, enjoyable #205
- Esperanto simpatia/simpaˈtia/ nice, likable #1,894
- Estonian kena/ˈkenɑ/ nice, kind #272
- Finnish hauskaa/ˈhauskaː/ pleasant, nice, merry, fun, enjoyable #279
- French sympa/sɛ̃.pa/ nice; likeable #794
- Georgian კარგი[kʼäɾɡi] nice, okay, well, good #30
- German toll/tɔl/ great, nice, wonderful #387
- Greek ωραίο/oˈɾe.o/ good, fine, nice #418
- Hebrew נחמד/neχˈmad/ nice, pleasant, lovely #221
- Hindi अच्छी/ət͡ʃt͡ʃʰiː/ good, nice, fine #199
- Hungarian kedves[ˈkɛdvɛʃ] nice, kind, pleasant #327
- Icelandic fínt/fin̥t/ fine, nice #266
- Indonesian baik/ˈbaik/ good, nice, decent #44
- Italian bella/ˈbɛl.la/ nice, fair, fine, pleasant; beautiful #295
- Korean 괜찮다[kwɛɲt͡ɕʰa̠ntʰa̠] to be nice, good, passable, OK, all right #1,284
- Latvian jauki/ˈjauki/ nice, pleasant, nicely, pleasantly; adverbial… #260
- Lithuanian mielas[ˈmʲîə.ɫ̪ɐs̪] nice, sweet #530
- Macedonian фин[fin] kind, nice #1,493
- Malay bagus/ˈbaɡos/ good, nice, decent, favourable #100
- Norwegian hyggelig/ˈhʏɡl̩ɪ/ nice, pleasant #357
- Polish fajnie/ˈfaj.ɲɛ/ cool, great, nice #1,065
- Portuguese simpático/sĩˈpa.t͡ʃi.ku/ nice, pleasant, likable #1,419
- Russian хороший[xɐˈroʂɨj] good, nice, fine #454
- Serbian lepa/ˈlɛpɐ/ nice, pretty #641
- Slovak pekné/pekneː/ #327
- Swedish fint/ˈfɪnt/ nice to look at or listen to or the like,… #497
- Turkish hoş/hoʃ/ #256
- Vietnamese xinh[sïŋ˧˧] nice; pretty #939
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 Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), 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.