How to say “receive” in 46 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 får is the 54th most used word.
- Afrikaans kry to get, receive, obtain #81
- Arabic تلقى to receive, to obtain #1,669
- Armenian ընդունել to receive, to take #465
- Basque hartu to take, receive, accept #56
- Bengali পা to get, to receive #329
- Bosnian dobio to receive, get, obtain, acquire #373
- Bulgarian приема to receive #901
- Catalan rebut to receive #824
- Chinese 接受 to accept; to receive; to take #124
- Croatian dobio to receive, get, obtain, acquire #306
- Danish modtaget to receive, get, accept #1,315
- Dutch krijg to get, to receive, to come into possession of #334
- English enjoy To receive pleasure or satisfaction from… #854
- Esperanto ricevis to receive, to get #478
- Estonian saa to get, to receive #61
- Finnish saa to get, receive #85
- French reçu to receive #684
- Galician recibir to receive #1,382
- Georgian მიიღებს to get, to receive #652
- German bekommen to receive; to get #370
- Greek δέχομαι to accept, receive #1,978
- Hebrew קיבל To receive, to get #714
- Hindi पाया to get, receive #497
- Hungarian kaptam to get, to receive #615
- Icelandic fá to receive, to get #71
- Indonesian terima to receive #80
- Italian ricevuto to receive, get, have, be given, take #627
- Latvian saņemt to receive, to get #1,263
- Lithuanian priimti to receive, to accept #796
- Macedonian добива to get, obtain, receive #1,171
- Malay terima To receive #67
- Malayalam വാങ്ങുക to receive, buy #1,814
- Norwegian får to get; to have; to obtain; to receive #80
- Polish przyjęcie to receive, to accept #1,285
- Portuguese receber to get; to receive #951
- Romanian primit to receive, to get #416
- Russian получить to receive, to get #573
- Serbian dobio to receive, get, obtain, acquire #380
- Slovak dostať to get, to receive #170
- Slovenian dobiti to receive, get, obtain, acquire #333
- Spanish recibir to receive, get #1,691
- Swedish får to get, to receive #54
- Tagalog magkaroon to have; to receive #385
- Tamil பெறுக to receive, get, gain, obtain, secure #414
- Ukrainian отримати to receive #674
- Vietnamese nhận to receive; to get; to obtain #174
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.