How to say “remain” in 41 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 Hindi, where रहे is the 26th most used word.
- Afrikaans oorbly to remain, to be left #1,124
- Albanian mbetur to stay, remain #505
- Arabic تبقى to remain, to continue, to stay #350
- Armenian մնաք to stay, to remain #418
- Bosnian ostati to stay, remain #445
- Bulgarian остана to stay, to remain #450
- Catalan queda to remain, to be left #333
- Chinese 剩下 to be left over; to remain #308
- Croatian ostati to stay, remain #371
- Czech zůstat to stay, to remain #521
- Dutch laat to leave, to cause to remain in the same… #84
- English leave To cause or allow to remain as available; to… #182
- Esperanto restu to remain, to stay #255
- Estonian jää to stay, to remain #349
- Finnish pysy to stay, remain #440
- Galician queda to stay, remain #368
- German bleiben to remain #264
- Greek κάθομαι to remain standing #1,905
- Hebrew נשאר to stay, to remain #561
- Hindi रहे to stay, remain #26
- Hungarian maradj to stay, remain #449
- Icelandic dvelja to stay, to remain, to dwell #2,008
- Indonesian tinggal to remain #167
- Italian sta to stay, remain #76
- Korean 있다 to stay, remain in a location #164
- Latvian paliec to remain #420
- Lithuanian likti stay, remain, be left #464
- Macedonian остане to stay, remain #485
- Norwegian blir to stay, remain #82
- Polish zostać to stay, to remain #338
- Portuguese resta to remain #2,071
- Romanian rămâne to remain, be left, stay behind #498
- Russian остаться to remain, to stay #643
- Serbian ostati to stay, remain #527
- Slovak ostať to stay, to remain #671
- Slovenian ostal to stay, remain #298
- Swedish stanna to stay; to remain at a place #227
- Tagalog manatili to stay or remain unchanged or constant; to… #299
- Turkish kal to remain, be left; to be left over #373
- Ukrainian заспокойся calm down, remain calm #925
- Vietnamese sót to be left over, to remain, remaindered #928
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.