How to say “perform” in 30 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 Hindi, where कर is the 18th most used word.
- Afrikaans uitvoer to execute, carry out; perform #1,847
- Albanian luaj to play, perform #588
- Arabic عمل to work, perform #138
- Basque operatu to perform surgery, to operate #2,308
- Bosnian obaviti to do, perform, complete, carry out #1,613
- Bulgarian правя to do, to perform, to carry out #199
- Chinese 表演 to perform; to act; to play #259
- Croatian obaviti to do, perform, complete, carry out #1,212
- Danish gør to do, perform, execute #57
- Dutch bedrijf to do, to perform, to carry out #830
- English cut To perform an incision on, for example with a… #457
- Esperanto prezentas to perform, to play, to reenact, to depict,… #979
- Finnish tehdä to do, perform, execute, carry out #81
- French marier to marry, to marry off; to perform or cause… #1,209
- Galician cumprir to carry out, to do, to perform #2,376
- Hindi कर to do, to perform, to execute #18
- Indonesian melakukan to do, to perform, to take action #79
- Latvian veikt to do, to perform #1,111
- Lithuanian atlikti to perform, execute #718
- Macedonian врши to perform, carry out #2,309
- Malay melakukan to do, to perform, to take action #174
- Polish zagrać to play, to perform music using a musical… #2,404
- Portuguese agir to do something; to act; to function; to… #1,628
- Serbian obaviti to do, perform, complete, carry out #2,059
- Spanish hacer to do, perform, execute, carry out #68
- Swedish skär to cut; to perform an incision #1,748
- Tagalog ministro person trained to perform religious ceremonies #1,809
- Tamil செய்ய to do, perform, create, make, accomplish #26
- Telugu చేస్తున్నాను to do, make, perform #47
- Vietnamese diễn to act; to perform #445
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.