How to say “pull” in 44 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 Hebrew, where שלה is the 124th most used word.
- Albanian heq to pull out #643
- Arabic سحب to pull, to drag #1,089
- Armenian հանել to pull out, to extract #487
- Bengali আকর্ষণ attraction, pull, draw #1,085
- Bosnian izvući to pull out, draw out #945
- Bulgarian измъкна to pull out #1,259
- Chinese 拿出 to take out; to pull out #842
- Croatian izvući to pull out, draw out #775
- Danish træk to pull, drag, haul, tow #668
- Dutch trek to pull, to draw #758
- English picked To grasp and pull with the fingers or… #1,151
- Esperanto tiru to drag, draw, pull #822
- Estonian tõmbama to pull #2,061
- Finnish vetää to pull, drag, draw #1,347
- French tirer to draw, drag, pull #726
- Galician sacar to take out, bring out, pull out #1,024
- Georgian გამომივიდა to succeed, to work out, to pull off #1,304
- German ziehen to pull; to drag #698
- Greek ξεκίνησε to start out, start off, set off, pull away #1,252
- Hebrew שלה to pull out, to draw out #124
- Hindi खींचो to pull #1,390
- Hungarian húzd to pull, draw #1,753
- Icelandic draga to draw, drag, pull #727
- Indonesian menarik to pull, to draw #348
- Italian tiro to pull, to draw, to tug, to drag #1,772
- Korean 빼 to pull, to remove, to take out #1,113
- Latvian velc to pull #1,599
- Macedonian извади to pull out, take out #742
- Malay menarik to pull; to haul; to drag #320
- Malayalam വലിക്ക് to pull #836
- Norwegian dra to pull, draw, drag #147
- Persian کشیدن to pull, to drag, to haul #2,099
- Polish wyciągnąć to pull out, to take out #2,169
- Romanian trage to pull, draw, drag #665
- Russian вытащить to take out; to pull out, to drag out #2,191
- Serbian izvući to pull out, draw out #1,014
- Slovak vytiahnuť to extract, pull out, take out #1,253
- Swedish dra to pull #341
- Tagalog hila pull; pulling #976
- Tamil இழு to drag, pull #587
- Telugu లాగండి #351
- Turkish çek to pull #600
- Urdu کھینچنا to pull #2,329
- Vietnamese kéo to pull #630
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.