How to say “pleasant” in 35 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 Dutch, where leuk is the 205th most used word.
- Albanian këndshëm pleasant, nice, likable #1,081
- Arabic ممتع pleasant, delicious, amusing, enjoyable #874
- Armenian հաճելի pleasant, agreeable #263
- Basque atsegin #290
- Bengali খোশ pleasant, delightful, amusing #1,721
- Bosnian ugodan pleasing, pleasant, agreeable #2,468
- Bulgarian приятен pleasant, enjoyable, nice #1,263
- Catalan agradable pleasant; agreeable; pleasing #1,237
- Chinese 愉快 happy; pleasant; enjoyable #459
- Croatian ugodan pleasing, pleasant, agreeable #1,839
- Danish rart #635
- Dutch leuk nice, pleasant, enjoyable #205
- English sweet In a pleasant manner #638
- Esperanto agrabla agreeable, pleasant, congenial #1,712
- Finnish hauskaa pleasant, nice, merry, fun, enjoyable #279
- French agréable pleasurable, nice, pleasant, agreeable #1,797
- Georgian მყუდრო calm, tranquil, having a pleasant ambiance #1,510
- Hebrew נחמד nice, pleasant, lovely #221
- Hungarian kedves nice, kind, pleasant #327
- Korean 반갑다 to be glad, happy; pleasant; welcome #1,444
- Latvian jauki nice, pleasant, nicely, pleasantly; adverbial… #260
- Lithuanian malonu pleasant, pleasing; agreeable #215
- Macedonian пријатен pleasant, nice, agreeable #1,529
- Malay seronok pleasant; enjoyable; fun #793
- Malayalam സുഗന്ധം pleasant smell; fragrance; scent #1,437
- Norwegian hyggelig nice, pleasant #357
- Polish miły nice, pleasant, dear, gentle, mild, soft,… #1,247
- Portuguese simpático nice, pleasant, likable #1,419
- Serbian prijatan #2,229
- Slovenian prijeten #738
- Spanish agradable agreeable, pleasant #1,011
- Swedish trevlig nice and pleasant towards others, personable #821
- Tagalog sarap tastiness; deliciousness; pleasant taste #459
- Tamil இனிய sweet, pleasant, delightful #230
- Turkish tatlı sweet; having a pleasant taste, akin to that… #537
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.