How to say “roof” in 31 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 tage is the 121st most used word.
- Afrikaans dak #786
- Albanian çati #1,762
- Basque teilatu tiled roof #1,626
- Bengali ছাদ #1,297
- Bosnian krov #1,981
- Croatian krov #2,075
- Danish tage #121
- Dutch dak #1,329
- Esperanto tegmento #2,161
- Estonian katus #2,247
- French toit #1,682
- German dach #1,632
- Hebrew גג #1,948
- Hindi छत roof, ceiling #875
- Indonesian atap #1,397
- Italian tetto #1,847
- Korean 지붕 #1,674
- Latvian jumta #1,214
- Lithuanian stogas #2,097
- Malay bumbung #1,103
- Malayalam മേൽക്കൂര #2,396
- Norwegian tak #451
- Persian سقف ceiling, roof #1,364
- Portuguese telhado #2,282
- Serbian krov #1,968
- Slovak strechu #1,331
- Slovenian streha #1,715
- Swedish taket a roof #1,493
- Tagalog bubong #1,064
- Tamil கூரை sloping roof, commonly thatch with grass or… #747
- Ukrainian дах #2,072
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.