How to say “school” in 47 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 పాఠశాల is the 176th most used word.
- Afrikaans skool #322
- Albanian shkollë #503
- Arabic مدرسة school, academy #610
- Basque eskola #462
- Bengali স্কুল school, academy #496
- Bosnian škola #1,200
- Bulgarian училище #387
- Catalan escola #573
- Chinese 高中 high school; senior high school #553
- Croatian škola #1,247
- Czech školy #650
- Danish skole #691
- Dutch school a school, educational institution that… #378
- Esperanto lernejo #374
- Estonian kool #1,289
- Finnish koulussa #1,366
- French école #432
- Galician escola #445
- German schule school; department/institute at a college or… #551
- Greek σχολείο #459
- Hindi स्कूल #522
- Hungarian iskola #1,472
- Indonesian perguruan school: an institution dedicated to teaching… #2,204
- Italian scuola #425
- Korean 학교 #399
- Latvian skolā #711
- Lithuanian mokyklos #534
- Macedonian училиште #508
- Malay sekolah #307
- Malayalam സ്കൂൾ #657
- Norwegian skolen #517
- Persian مدرسه #294
- Polish szkoły #622
- Portuguese escola #413
- Romanian liceu secondary school #1,350
- Russian школа #2,020
- Serbian škola #1,174
- Slovak škola #759
- Slovenian šola #604
- Spanish escuela #462
- Swedish skolan #506
- Tagalog paaralan #1,758
- Telugu పాఠశాల #176
- Turkish okul #728
- Ukrainian школа #1,554
- Urdu اسکول #500
- Vietnamese trường #341
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.