How to say “personal” 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 Urdu, where میں is the 2nd most used word.
- Afrikaans intiem intimate, personal #2,084
- Basque nire First-person singular personal pronoun; I #11
- Bengali ব্যক্তিগত #691
- Bulgarian личен personal, individual, private #1,893
- Catalan en Personal article used before masculine given… #11
- Chinese 私人 private; personal #496
- Czech osobní #990
- Danish mig first person singular accusative personal… #18
- Dutch we we; first-person plural subjective personal… #12
- English it The third-person singular neuter personal… #7
- Esperanto rin they . A gender-neutral singular third-person… #1,613
- Estonian isiklik personal, private #1,146
- French lui him, he, it; the third-person masculine… #71
- Galician vós second-person plural nominative personal… #264
- Georgian პირადი personal, private #1,353
- Greek προσωπική personal, intimate, private #1,706
- Hebrew אנחנו We; the subject form of the first-person… #24
- Hindi हम we: first-person plural personal pronoun,… #21
- Hungarian személyes #1,045
- Icelandic okkur we, nominative plural form of the personal… #30
- Indonesian tuan second person personal pronoun #221
- Italian vi second-person personal plural object pronoun:… #133
- Korean 볼일 personal business/task #2,066
- Lithuanian asmeninis #1,819
- Macedonian лична personal, private #1,666
- Malay peribadi personal, private #693
- Norwegian personlig #900
- Persian سابقه personal history; a record #1,046
- Polish ktoś indeterminate personal pronoun; someone,… #117
- Portuguese ele third-person masculine singular nominative… #18
- Romanian personală #1,954
- Russian имя personal name, first name, Christian name,… #299
- Slovenian oseben #2,366
- Spanish él he, him, masculine personal third person… #52
- Swedish pa initialism of personal assistant #970
- Tagalog niyo second-person plural indirect personal noun:… #59
- Turkish kişisel #854
- Ukrainian власний own, personal #2,299
- Urdu میں first-person singular subjective personal… #2
- Vietnamese o First, second, and third female personal… #1,048
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.