How to say “order” in 51 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 Bengali, where জন্য is the 15th most used word.
- Afrikaans orde #444
- Albanian rendi row, order, line #1,808
- Arabic أمر to order, to command, to bid, to instruct #139
- Armenian որպեսզի in order to #318
- Basque ordenatu to put in order, to arrange #2,064
- Bengali জন্য for; on behalf of; about; due to; because of;… #15
- Bulgarian наред sequentially, in order, in line, in turn,… #175
- Catalan ordre order, organization, discipline #535
- Chinese 命令 order; command; directive #224
- Croatian zapovijed order, command #1,614
- Czech rozkaz order, command #1,171
- Danish orden order, neatness #304
- Dutch bevel order, command #1,057
- English fly Any insect of the order Diptera;… #951
- Esperanto ordo #289
- Estonian käsk order, command #1,104
- Finnish jotta so that, in order that, for the purpose that #313
- French ordre #740
- Galician orde #428
- Georgian რათა in order to, so that #246
- German befehl command, order #1,151
- Greek ώστε so that, in order that, in order for #383
- Hebrew כדי in order: specifies a purpose #58
- Hindi आदेश order, mandate, injunction #376
- Hungarian rendbe #1,026
- Icelandic skipun command, order #1,067
- Indonesian agar to; in order to #344
- Italian ordine #785
- Korean 번째 a dependent noun used to express the order or… #385
- Latvian pavēles order, command #1,830
- Lithuanian tvarka order, orderliness; method #1,002
- Macedonian наредба command, order #793
- Malay suruh to order someone to do something #406
- Malayalam ആജ്ഞ command; order #1,139
- Norwegian orden #361
- Persian دستور command, order #438
- Polish porządku #94
- Portuguese ordem #770
- Romanian ordine order, command #780
- Russian команда command, order #1,132
- Slovak poriadok #1,429
- Slovenian red #482
- Spanish orden #608
- Swedish sedan then, after this, afterwards; next in order #269
- Tagalog para for; so; in order to #18
- Tamil சட்டம் rule, order, law, act, condition, regulation,… #404
- Telugu అక్రమము want of order #1,277
- Turkish buyur to order, to command #1,464
- Ukrainian щоб so that, in order that; in order to #48
- Urdu نظام system, order #183
- Vietnamese để in order to, so that, for, to #39
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.