How to say “run” in 48 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 Telugu, where కారు is the 107th most used word.
- Afrikaans hardloop #587
- Albanian ndjek to run #685
- Arabic جرى to run #837
- Armenian փախչել to run away, to escape, to flee #654
- Basque funtzionatu to function, to run, to work #904
- Bengali পরিচালিত driven, run #1,586
- Bosnian pobjeći to flee, run away #1,367
- Bulgarian бягам to run away, to flee, to escape #2,290
- Catalan córrer to run #876
- Chinese 逃跑 to run away; to flee; to escape #530
- Croatian pobjeći to flee, run away #888
- Czech běž to run #397
- Danish leder to manage, run #361
- Dutch loopt to run, go fast on one's own legs #654
- Esperanto kuru to run #519
- Estonian jooksma to run #1,478
- Finnish sujuu to go, run #1,462
- French courant to run #604
- Galician corre to run #1,168
- German läuft third-person singular present of laufen 'to… #479
- Greek τρέχει to run, move quickly, sprint #479
- Hebrew ברח to run away #1,155
- Hindi रन #1,985
- Hungarian fuss to run #1,740
- Icelandic hlaupa to run #738
- Indonesian jalankan to run, operate #1,870
- Italian scappare to run away, flee, escape, scarper or… #1,026
- Latvian bēgt to flee, run away, escape #1,627
- Lithuanian bėk to run #382
- Macedonian бегај to run away #447
- Malay lari to run #284
- Malayalam ഓടുക to run #2,457
- Norwegian løp to run #519
- Polish uciec to run away, to flee #1,077
- Portuguese correr to run #533
- Romanian fugi to run #702
- Russian бежать to run, to be running #1,604
- Serbian pobeći to flee, run away #1,859
- Slovak ujsť to flee, to escape, to run away #1,012
- Slovenian tvegati to risk, to run the risk of #807
- Spanish corre to run, to jog #1,167
- Swedish spring to run #771
- Tagalog takbo run; act of running #245
- Tamil ஓடு to run, flee, fasten #756
- Telugu కారు to flow, drop, run out, run in drops, trickle #107
- Turkish koş to run #1,084
- Ukrainian бігти to run #1,855
- Vietnamese lan to spread; to run #1,141
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.