How to say “pretty” in 37 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 Hungarian, where jó is the 32nd most used word.
- Afrikaans mooi beautiful, pretty #116
- Arabic وسيم handsome, pretty, goodly, elegant #1,164
- Armenian սիրունիկ cute, nice, pretty #1,634
- Basque ederra beautiful, pretty, handsome #159
- Bengali সুন্দর beautiful, pretty #147
- Bosnian prilično rather, pretty, quite, fairly #526
- Bulgarian хубав pretty, lovely, fine-looking, beautiful,… #899
- Catalan bonic #716
- Chinese 漂亮 pretty; beautiful; handsome #110
- Croatian prilično rather, pretty, quite, fairly #453
- Czech hezký nice, pretty #936
- Danish pænt fairly, pretty; to some extent #866
- Dutch mooi beautiful, pretty, handsome #236
- Esperanto bela beautiful, pretty #211
- Estonian ilus beautiful, pretty #373
- Finnish kaunis beautiful, pretty, fair #439
- French jolie pretty; cute #831
- Galician bonito pretty, lovely #657
- Georgian საკმაოდ enough, pretty, quite, rather #524
- German recht very, quite, rather, pretty, fairly #233
- Greek όμορφη beautiful, pretty, handsome #547
- Hindi सुंदर beautiful, pretty; good-looking, handsome #297
- Hungarian jó quite, pretty #32
- Icelandic fallegt beautiful, pretty, pulchritudinous #358
- Indonesian cantik pretty, beautiful #349
- Korean 예쁜 to be pretty, lovely, beautiful, comely #491
- Macedonian убава beautiful, pretty #377
- Malay cantik beautiful, good-looking, pretty #283
- Norwegian ganske quite, pretty #364
- Polish całkiem quite, pretty #523
- Portuguese bonita pretty, lovely #743
- Serbian prilično rather, pretty, quite, fairly #498
- Spanish bastante quite, rather, pretty, fairly #384
- Swedish ganska pretty, quite, rather #490
- Turkish epey pretty, quite, fairly #896
- Ukrainian гарний beautiful, pretty, handsome #677
- Vietnamese xinh nice; pretty #939
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.