How to say “recently” in 35 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 Danish, where lige is the 60th most used word.
- Afrikaans kortliks #1,737
- Armenian վերջերս recently, lately, in the last few days #1,121
- Bengali ইদানীং lately, recently #1,616
- Bosnian nedavno #1,354
- Bulgarian скоро #265
- Catalan últimament lately, recently #2,176
- Chinese 最近 recently; lately; of late #153
- Croatian nedavno #1,198
- Czech nedávno #1,447
- Danish lige just, recently #60
- Dutch pas just, recently #363
- English fresh Recently; just recently; most recently #1,264
- Esperanto lastatempe #2,128
- Estonian äsja just now, just, recently #952
- French récemment #1,914
- German neulich #1,888
- Greek τελευταία lately, recently #279
- Hebrew חדש new, recently made #322
- Hungarian nemrég recently, not long ago #1,618
- Italian ultimamente lately, recently, of late #1,610
- Korean 요즘 recent times; recently #361
- Lithuanian neseniai #740
- Macedonian неодамна #1,853
- Malay baru just, recently, a few moments ago #112
- Malayalam അടുത്തിടെ #1,867
- Norwegian nylig #1,540
- Polish ostatnio lately, recently, the other day #593
- Portuguese novo recently made or created #231
- Russian недавно recently, not long ago, lately #1,091
- Serbian nedavno #1,401
- Spanish últimamente recently, lately #1,718
- Swedish nyss just, quite recently #1,089
- Tagalog kanina #332
- Ukrainian недавно recently, not long ago, newly, lately #937
- Vietnamese vừa just, recently, at this moment #266
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.