How to say “place” in 53 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 Swedish, where är is the 3rd most used word.
- Afrikaans geplaas to place; to put something down #1,126
- Albanian vend #144
- Arabic هنا here, in this place #17
- Armenian տեղ place, location, locality, position #284
- Basque jarri to put, place, lay down #106
- Bengali রাখা to put, to place, to lay #306
- Bosnian mjesta #653
- Bulgarian място place, venue, spot, locale, site #163
- Catalan a in, at; indicating a particular time or place #6
- Chinese 地方 place; region; area #23
- Croatian mjesta #515
- Czech přišel to reach a place by walking; to come #301
- Danish sæt to put, place, set #387
- Dutch waar where, in which place #56
- English there In or at a place or location that is… #40
- Esperanto loko place; location; spot #273
- Estonian toimub to happen, to take place, to come about #233
- Finnish tapahtui to happen, take place, occur, come about,… #192
- French mettre to put; to place #325
- Galician lugar #174
- Georgian ადგილი #406
- German hier here; in this place; refers to an environment… #29
- Greek βάλω to put, place #638
- Hebrew כאן Here, at this place #34
- Hindi जगह place, site #190
- Hungarian innen from here, from this place, hence #209
- Icelandic hjá by, near, next to, at place #66
- Indonesian tempat #94
- Italian posto place, spot #163
- Korean 이리 to this place, hither, here #187
- Latvian kur where? in what place? #46
- Lithuanian vieta #254
- Macedonian стави to put, place #367
- Malay tempat A certain place #97
- Malayalam സ്ഥലം #111
- Norwegian helvete Hell; a place of suffering for the damned #208
- Persian جا #161
- Polish miejsce place, room, space #215
- Portuguese lugar #239
- Romanian loc place, location #165
- Russian место place, spot #213
- Serbian staviti to put, place #1,238
- Slovak postaviť to place, to position #777
- Slovenian tukaj here, in this place #47
- Spanish dónde where?; in what place? #99
- Swedish är to occupy a place, to be #3
- Tagalog lugar place; location #152
- Tamil இங்கு here, in this place #71
- Telugu ఈ this, these, as ఈ చోటున in this place; ఈ… #7
- Turkish nerede where, in what place #99
- Ukrainian місце place, spot #236
- Urdu جگہ place, site #114
- Vietnamese đó that place over there #10
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.