How to say “send” in 43 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 Armenian, where ուղարկել is the 373rd most used word.
- Albanian dërguar to send, dispatch #626
- Arabic أرسل to send #645
- Armenian ուղարկել to send, to dispatch, to transmit #373
- Basque igorri to send #1,787
- Bengali পাঠানো to send #586
- Bosnian poslao to send #638
- Bulgarian изпратя to send #1,258
- Catalan enviar to send #667
- Chinese 派出 to dispatch; to send #2,173
- Croatian poslao to send #634
- Czech poslat to send and #1,117
- Danish sender to send #592
- Esperanto sendis to send #615
- Finnish lähettää to send, dispatch #1,011
- French envoyé to send #699
- Galician enviar to send #1,704
- German schickt to send, to dispatch #1,717
- Greek έστειλα to send #1,625
- Hebrew שלח to send: cause to go #700
- Hindi भेजा to send #580
- Hungarian küldeni to send #2,471
- Icelandic senda to send #427
- Indonesian antar to send, to deliver #1,627
- Italian mandato to send, forward, dispatch, transmit #611
- Latvian sūtīt to send #2,106
- Lithuanian siųsti to send, to dispatch #1,793
- Macedonian прати to send #572
- Malay kirim to send #1,610
- Norwegian sendte to send #591
- Persian فرستادن to send #1,418
- Polish wyprawiasz to pack off, to send away #1,691
- Portuguese enviar to send #1,401
- Romanian trimis to send #479
- Russian отправить to send, to dispatch, to forward #1,787
- Serbian poslao to send #657
- Slovenian poslati to send #711
- Spanish envió to send #1,660
- Swedish skicka #539
- Tagalog ipadala to send to; to have something delivered to #1,103
- Tamil அனுப்பு to send #1,284
- Ukrainian викликати to call out, to call for, to send for, to… #2,235
- Urdu بھیجنا to send #1,115
- Vietnamese gửi to send #612
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.