How to say “sense” in 45 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 Greek, where έχει is the 50th most used word.
- Afrikaans sin meaning, sense #621
- Arabic معنى meaning, import, sense #533
- Armenian իմաստ sense, meaning #1,150
- Basque sen common sense #1,354
- Bosnian smisao sense, meaning #1,883
- Bulgarian значение significance, meaning, sense #318
- Catalan sento to sense #164
- Chinese 感到 to feel; to sense; to have a feeling that #152
- Croatian smisao sense, meaning #1,794
- Czech smysl sense, meaning #623
- Danish føler to feel, sense #421
- Dutch smaak taste, sense of taste #2,029
- English listen To use one's sense of hearing and auditory… #229
- Esperanto tiele in the strict sense of: “in such a manner”,… #1,424
- Estonian meelde #611
- Finnish tunnen to feel, sense #444
- German sinn #803
- Greek έχει to have/hold, in the sense of holding property #50
- Hebrew הרגיש feel, sense #1,491
- Hindi भावना feeling, sense #1,154
- Hungarian egyet expressing a semelfactive sense, a short… #297
- Icelandic sé to see, to sense or perceive with one's eyes #52
- Indonesian lahir physical in the material sense, corporeal;… #826
- Italian senso #510
- Korean 리 way, reason, sense #513
- Latvian sajūta #712
- Lithuanian jausmas feeling, emotion, sense #646
- Macedonian смисла sense, meaning, logic, purpose #604
- Malay terasa to feel; to sense #1,044
- Malayalam ചെവി ear; the sense organ responsible for hearing #701
- Norwegian aner guess, sense #608
- Persian حس #256
- Polish sensu #1,129
- Portuguese sinto to sense; to feel #333
- Romanian sens sense, meaning #901
- Russian уже already; carries the sense of the perfect… #63
- Serbian smisao sense, meaning #1,840
- Slovenian pamet intelligence, sense #615
- Spanish gusta to like in a general sense #206
- Swedish känner to feel, to sense #133
- Tagalog kahulugan meaning; sense #839
- Tamil இந்தா interjection used in the sense of "here! take… #627
- Ukrainian почуття sense, feeling #1,024
- Urdu عقل common sense #1,448
- Vietnamese nghĩa a meaning; a sense #326
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.