How to say “plan” in 42 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 Icelandic, where ætla is the 100th most used word.
- Basque egitasmo project, plan #2,012
- Bengali পরিকল্পনা plan, design #433
- Bosnian plan #493
- Bulgarian план plan, scheme #554
- Catalan programa program, plan, schedule #1,147
- Chinese 打算 to plan; to intend #118
- Croatian plan #496
- Czech plán #591
- Danish plan a plan #571
- Dutch plan to plan #379
- English mean To intend, to plan; to have as one's intention #124
- Esperanto plano plan, design, scheme, diagram #1,155
- Estonian plaan #558
- Finnish aio to plan to do, intend to do, aim to do; to be… #617
- Galician proxecto project, plan #1,304
- Georgian ვაპირებ to plan on, be going to #579
- Greek σχέδιο design, plan, drawing, pattern #536
- Hebrew תכנית A program, a plan #929
- Hindi योजना plan, scheme, strategy #367
- Hungarian terv #974
- Icelandic ætla to intend, to plan, to mean to, be going to #100
- Indonesian rencana #403
- Italian proposito purpose, intention, plan, design #932
- Korean 계획 a plan #832
- Latvian plāns plan, map, blueprint, layout #534
- Lithuanian planas #470
- Macedonian план #405
- Malay pelan #1,132
- Malayalam തീരുമാനിക്കുക to decide a plan, course, decision, etc #2,384
- Norwegian plan a plan #768
- Persian طرح #1,262
- Polish zamierzam to intend, to mean, to plan #941
- Russian план plan, scheme #600
- Serbian plan #513
- Slovenian načrt #275
- Spanish proyecto project, plan #1,526
- Swedish planen definite singular of plan c #1,146
- Tagalog plano plan; intent #523
- Tamil திட்டம் plan, project, scheme #242
- Turkish plan #928
- Ukrainian план plan, scheme #432
- Urdu منصوبہ plan, design, scheme, project #290
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.