How to say “odd” in 35 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 Chinese, where 奇怪 is the 134th most used word.
- Afrikaans vreemd strange; odd #561
- Albanian çuditshme strange, odd, peculiar, weird #427
- Armenian տարօրինակ strange, weird, odd #301
- Bengali অদ্ভুত strange, queer, odd #355
- Bosnian čudan strange, weird, odd #1,591
- Bulgarian странен strange, odd #1,434
- Chinese 奇怪 odd; strange; surprising; unexpected #134
- Croatian čudan strange, weird, odd #1,421
- Czech navíc extra, odd #713
- Danish mærkeligt weird, strange, odd #1,204
- Dutch vreemd strange, weird, odd #661
- English strange Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of… #724
- Esperanto stranga strange, odd, peculiar #601
- Estonian imelik strange, weird, odd #631
- French bizarre bizarre, odd, strange, funny #572
- Galician estraño weird, odd, peculiar #669
- Georgian უცნაური bizarre, eccentric, odd, quaint, queer,… #746
- German merkwürdig strange, odd #2,119
- Greek παράξενο strange, weird, odd, bizarre #854
- Hebrew מוזר strange, odd, bizarre, unusual, weird #308
- Hungarian furcsa strange, odd, peculiar, curious, weird,… #541
- Indonesian aneh strange, weird, odd, unusual #280
- Italian strano strange, odd, dodgy #502
- Korean 별일 an unusual event; an odd thing, a strange… #762
- Latvian liekas #440
- Lithuanian keistas strange, odd, peculiar #772
- Norwegian egne peculiar, odd #704
- Polish dziwne strange, odd, weird #587
- Portuguese estranho odd; strange #493
- Russian странный strange, odd, weird #2,246
- Serbian čudan strange, weird, odd #1,370
- Slovak divný strange, odd, surprising #1,143
- Spanish extraño strange, unusual, odd, weird, bizarre,… #641
- Tamil ஒற்றைப்படை odd numbers #1,525
- Vietnamese lố odd; strange #1,957
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.