How to say “property” in 30 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 har is the 9th most used word.
- Albanian pronë #2,033
- Arabic مال property, possessions, chattels, goods #608
- Armenian բարիք wealth, property #776
- Bengali সম্পদ property; wealth #877
- Catalan local property, premises; business, storefront #1,486
- Czech majetek possession, property #2,305
- Danish ejendom #2,115
- English chose A thing; personal property #2,113
- French propriété #2,387
- Galician propiedade property, characteristic #1,294
- German gutes commodity, property, possession, good #724
- Greek περιουσία property, possessions, wealth #1,757
- Hindi संपत्ति property, possessions; riches #993
- Icelandic eign #1,525
- Indonesian milik #606
- Latvian mantas #918
- Lithuanian nuosavybė #1,858
- Macedonian имот property, estate #1,464
- Malay milik #445
- Malayalam സ്വത്ത് #1,359
- Norwegian eiendom a property #2,062
- Persian مال property, wealth, money, assets #200
- Portuguese propriedade property; belonging #1,734
- Slovenian last #1,085
- Swedish har To have; to possess, or to have as a… #9
- Tagalog lupain landed property; estate; land holdings #761
- Tamil தன்மை nature, property, essence #978
- Telugu ఆస్తి property, estate, effect, wealth, riches #442
- Turkish tanıklık the state or property of being a witness #2,390
- Urdu ملکیت ownership; property #1,269
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.