How to say “quickly” in 49 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 Malayalam, where വേഗം is the 53rd most used word.
- Afrikaans gou quick, quickly #157
- Albanian shpejt quickly, fast #164
- Armenian արագ fast, quickly, rapidly #237
- Basque azkar fast, quickly #145
- Bengali জলদি quickly; hurriedly; hastily #188
- Bosnian brzo quickly, rapidly #269
- Bulgarian бързо quickly, fast #255
- Catalan ràpid rapidly, quickly #440
- Chinese 快速 rapidly; quickly #934
- Croatian brzo quickly, rapidly #310
- Czech rychle #303
- Dutch gauw #1,481
- English run To move forward quickly upon two feet by… #316
- Esperanto rapide rapidly; quickly #175
- Estonian kiiresti fast, quickly #370
- Finnish nopeasti rapidly, quickly #394
- French vite #250
- Galician rápido #423
- Georgian ჩქარა fast, quickly, rapidly #997
- German schnell #269
- Greek γρήγορα quickly, fast #230
- Hebrew מהר quickly, rapidly, fast #233
- Hindi जल्दी quickly, rapidly; soon #218
- Hungarian gyorsan quickly, swiftly, fast, rapidly #281
- Indonesian lari to move forward quickly upon two feet by… #378
- Italian velocemente quickly, speedily, fast, rapidly #1,944
- Korean 어서 #82
- Latvian ātrāk faster, more quickly: adverbial form of ātrāks #244
- Lithuanian greičiau quickly, swiftly #135
- Macedonian брзо fast, quickly, rapidly #225
- Malay lekas Quickly or fast #824
- Malayalam വേഗം #53
- Norwegian snart soon, quickly, shortly #237
- Persian سرعت #598
- Polish szybko quickly, rapidly, fast, swiftly #251
- Portuguese rápido with speed; rapidly; quickly #444
- Romanian repede fast, quickly, rapidly #247
- Russian быстро fast, quickly, rapidly #376
- Serbian brzo quickly, rapidly #270
- Slovak rýchlo #190
- Slovenian hitro fast, quickly #158
- Spanish rápido rapidly, quickly, fast #310
- Swedish fort quickly/quick, fast #397
- Tamil சீக்கிரம் soon, quickly #209
- Telugu త్వరగా #283
- Turkish çabuk quickly, soon #307
- Ukrainian швидко fast, quickly #380
- Urdu بیگ hastily, speedily, quickly, soon #409
- Vietnamese nhanh fast; quickly #220
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.