How to say “sell” 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 Basque, where saldu is the 358th most used word.
- Albanian shitur to sell, estimate #962
- Arabic راج to have currency, to circulate, to sell well,… #1,962
- Basque saldu to sell #358
- Bosnian prodati to sell #1,522
- Bulgarian продам to sell #2,329
- Catalan vendre to sell #936
- Chinese 出售 to sell; to offer to sell; to put up for sale #1,530
- Croatian prodati to sell #1,215
- Czech prodat to sell #1,636
- Danish sælge to sell #834
- Dutch verkocht to sell #1,117
- Esperanto vendas to sell #1,740
- Finnish myydä to sell #1,543
- French vendre to sell #989
- Galician vender to sell #989
- Georgian გაყიდე to sell #796
- German verkaufen to sell #910
- Hebrew מכר to sell #2,044
- Hindi बेच to sell #833
- Icelandic selja to sell #556
- Indonesian menjual to sell, to market #730
- Italian vendere to sell #1,624
- Latvian pārdot to sell #1,141
- Lithuanian parduoti to sell #827
- Macedonian продаде to sell #1,533
- Malay menjual to sell, to market #815
- Norwegian selge to sell #820
- Persian فروش to sell #813
- Polish sprzedać to sell #1,917
- Portuguese vender to sell #1,038
- Romanian vinde to sell #1,311
- Russian продать to sell #1,862
- Serbian prodao to sell #1,531
- Slovak predať to sell #806
- Spanish vender to sell #1,477
- Swedish sälja to sell #866
- Tagalog ibenta to sell #935
- Telugu అమ్మిన to sell #814
- Turkish satmak to sell, to market #2,274
- Ukrainian продати to sell #1,601
- Vietnamese bán to sell #514
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.