How to say “shop” in 40 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 Georgian, where მაღაზიაში is the 336th most used word.
- Afrikaans winkel A shop #1,633
- Albanian dyqan shop, store #1,049
- Armenian խանութ shop, store #409
- Basque denda #553
- Bengali দোকান store, shop #748
- Bulgarian магазин shop, store, market #1,212
- Catalan botiga shop, store #1,223
- Chinese 商店 shop; store #886
- Danish butikken store, shop #1,906
- Dutch winkel shop, store #1,077
- Estonian poes #1,543
- French magasin shop, store #1,208
- Galician bar bar, coffee shop, café, pub #1,608
- Georgian მაღაზიაში shop, store #336
- German geschäft shop, store #862
- Greek μαγαζί shop, store, retail outlet #897
- Hindi दुकान #729
- Icelandic versla to shop #1,414
- Indonesian toko shop; store #672
- Italian negozio shop, a store #1,013
- Korean 가게 store, shop #381
- Latvian veikalā shop, store #1,288
- Lithuanian parduotuvė shop, store #1,550
- Macedonian продавница shop, store #1,014
- Malay kedai #599
- Malayalam കട store, shop #526
- Norwegian butikken a shop, or store #1,418
- Persian مغازه #801
- Polish sklepu shop, store #1,893
- Portuguese loja shop, store #837
- Romanian magazin shop, supermarket #1,048
- Russian магазин shop, store #1,361
- Slovenian trgovina #1,005
- Spanish bar bar, coffee shop, café, pub #1,004
- Swedish handlar to shop, buy #438
- Tagalog tindahan store; retail shop #726
- Tamil கடை shop, store, stall, bazaar, market #773
- Ukrainian магазин shop, store #1,053
- Urdu دکان #1,135
- Vietnamese hiệu a shop; a store #453
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.