How to say “personal” in 40 different 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.
- προσωπική/ˌprosopiˈci/ Greek
- პირადი[pʼiɾädi] Georgian
- ব্যক্তিগত/bækt̪iɡɔt̪ɔ/ Bengali
“personal” in Turkish: kişisel · Greek: προσωπική
It is commonest in Bengali, where ব্যক্তিগত is the 691st most used word.
Personal in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans intiem/ənˈtim/ intimate, personal #2,084
- Basque nire/niɾe/ First-person singular personal pronoun; I #11
- Bengali ব্যক্তিগত/bækt̪iɡɔt̪ɔ/ #691
- Bulgarian личен[ˈlit͡ʃɛn] personal, individual, private #1,893
- Catalan en[ən] Personal article used before masculine given… #11
- Chinese 私人/sɹ̩⁵⁵ ɻən³⁵/ private; personal #496
- Czech osobní[ˈosobɲiː] #990
- Danish mig/mɑj/ first person singular accusative personal… #18
- Dutch we/ʋə/ we; first-person plural subjective personal… #12
- English it/ɪt/ The third-person singular neuter personal… #7
- Esperanto rin/rin/ they . A gender-neutral singular third-person… #1,613
- Estonian isiklik/ˈisiklik/ personal, private #1,146
- French lui/lɥi/ him, he, it; the third-person masculine… #71
- Galician vós/ˈbɔs/ second-person plural nominative personal… #264
- Georgian პირადი[pʼiɾädi] personal, private #1,353
- Greek προσωπική/ˌprosopiˈci/ personal, intimate, private #1,706
- Hebrew אנחנו/ʔaˈnaħ.nuː/ We; the subject form of the first-person… #24
- Hindi हम/ɦəm/ we: first-person plural personal pronoun,… #21
- Hungarian személyes[ˈsɛmeːjɛʃ] #1,045
- Icelandic okkur[ˈɔhkʏr] we, nominative plural form of the personal… #30
- Indonesian tuan/ˈtuan/ second person personal pronoun #221
- Italian vi/ˈvi/ second-person personal plural object pronoun:… #133
- Korean 볼일[ˈpo̞(ː)ʎʎiɭ] personal business/task #2,066
- Lithuanian asmeninis[ɐsʲmʲɛˈnʲɪnʲɪs] #1,819
- Macedonian лична[ˈlit͡ʃna] personal, private #1,666
- Malay peribadi/pəriˈbadi/ personal, private #693
- Norwegian personlig/pəˈʂuːnlɪ/ #900
- Persian سابقه[sɒː.be.ʁé] personal history; a record #1,046
- Polish ktoś/ˈktɔɕ/ indeterminate personal pronoun; someone,… #117
- Portuguese ele/ˈe.li/ third-person masculine singular nominative… #18
- Romanian personală/ˌpersoˈnalə/ #1,954
- Russian имя[ˈimʲə] personal name, first name, Christian name,… #299
- Slovenian oseben/ɔséːbən/ #2,366
- Spanish él/ˈel/ he, him, masculine personal third person… #52
- Swedish pa/ˈpa/ initialism of personal assistant #970
- Tagalog niyo/niˈo/ second-person plural indirect personal noun:… #59
- Turkish kişisel/ciʃisæl/ #854
- Ukrainian власний[ˈwɫasnei̯] own, personal #2,299
- Urdu میں/mɛ̃ː/ first-person singular subjective personal… #2
- Vietnamese o[ʔɔ˧˧] First, second, and third female personal… #1,048
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.