How to say “object” in 39 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 Persian, where به is the 4th most used word.
- Albanian trupi #795
- Armenian առարկա object; thing #1,303
- Basque objektu #1,173
- Bengali বস্তু thing; object; item #1,218
- Bosnian predmet thing, object #2,218
- Bulgarian по introducing the object of a targeted action… #38
- Chinese 事物 thing; object; matter #785
- Croatian predmet thing, object #2,132
- Czech vadit to mind, with the subject and the object… #2,174
- Dutch ballen a ball or any object with such a shape #1,609
- English that Introducing a clause that is the object of a… #9
- French trouvée found, being to object of a find #1,654
- Galician obxecto object, thing #1,927
- German beine leg of a person, animal, or object #1,429
- Greek πράγματα thing, entity, object #159
- Hebrew אתר A site: the location of an object, person,… #1,626
- Hindi चीज़ thing, object, item #1,068
- Hungarian dolog thing, object #183
- Icelandic grípa to catch an object #1,295
- Indonesian benda object, good, etc #561
- Italian vi second-person personal plural object pronoun:… #133
- Latvian starp used to locate an object in the space defined… #269
- Lithuanian su identifies the object of a reciprocal action #13
- Macedonian го Short direct object form of тој #6
- Malay benda object, thing, stuff, item, good #219
- Malayalam വസ്തു #838
- Norwegian deg thee, you; object form of du #14
- Persian به Expresses the indirect object: to; for #4
- Portuguese lhes indirect object of eles and elas #699
- Romanian lucru thing; object #140
- Russian вещи thing, object #361
- Serbian predmet thing, object #2,128
- Slovak predmet object, article #1,878
- Slovenian predmet #918
- Swedish en object form of the indefinite pronoun man #7
- Tagalog bagay thing; object; item #151
- Telugu గుండు a cylindrical or spherical object #1,577
- Ukrainian речі thing, object #288
- Vietnamese vật #380
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.