How to say “pass” in 40 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 Albanian, where shkojmë is the 102nd most used word.
- Afrikaans verbygaan to pass, to go by #1,358
- Albanian shkojmë to go, pass #102
- Arabic مضى to pass, be past #508
- Armenian անցնել to pass #484
- Basque pasatu to pass, to cross, to traverse #343
- Bosnian proći to pass, go #1,058
- Bulgarian мина to pass by, to elapse #505
- Catalan passa to pass, to pass by, to go by #134
- Chinese 死去 to die; to pass away; to go to one's death #465
- Croatian proći to pass, go #848
- Czech zemřít to die, to pass away, to decease #1,088
- English through So as to enter, pass within or across, and… #212
- Esperanto mortis to die, pass away #252
- Finnish aiheuttaa to cause, bring about, bring to pass, engender #1,539
- Galician pasa to pass, cross #187
- Georgian მაპატიეთ Said as a request to pass somebody #554
- German ball pass, play #1,400
- Greek πέρασε to pass, go past #650
- Hebrew עבר to pass, to cross #504
- Hungarian múlt to pass, to go by, to elapse #641
- Indonesian meninggal to pass away #391
- Italian passato to pass #402
- Korean 지난 to pass #225
- Lithuanian praeiti to pass #1,535
- Macedonian помине to pass, elapse #676
- Malay meninggal to die; to pass away #510
- Norwegian tilbringe to spend, pass #2,396
- Polish podaj to hand, to pass #1,492
- Portuguese passa to pass; to pass by #222
- Romanian trecut to pass through #271
- Russian пройти to pass, to go, to walk #1,082
- Serbian proći to pass, go #1,055
- Slovenian mini to pass #1,348
- Spanish pasa to pass, to hand, to slip #158
- Tagalog dumaan to pass by; to pass through #858
- Tamil நடக்க to walk, go, pass, proceed #252
- Telugu అతిక్రమించారు to transgress, trespass, pass over, pass #1,745
- Turkish geçti to pass, pass through, pass over, cross #478
- Ukrainian пройти to go, to pass, to walk #774
- Vietnamese truyền to pass to #720
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.