How to say “simply” 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 English, where and is the 8th most used word.
- Albanian thjesht #147
- Armenian խակ unsophisticatedly, simply #852
- Basque lau #238
- Bengali শুধু simply, merely, just, only #55
- Bosnian jednostavno #378
- Bulgarian просто #62
- Catalan simplement simply, just #607
- Chinese 根本 at all; simply; utterly; absolutely #106
- Croatian jednostavno #369
- Czech prostě #147
- Danish simpelthen #2,428
- Dutch gewoon simply, just #115
- English and Used simply to connect two noun phrases,… #8
- Esperanto simple #240
- Estonian lihtsalt simply, just #64
- French simplement #759
- Galician simplemente #631
- Georgian უბრალოდ merely, simply #90
- German nur only, just, merely, simply #43
- Greek απλά #83
- Hebrew פשוט #60
- Hungarian egyszerűen #500
- Icelandic einfaldlega #1,615
- Italian semplicemente simply, plainly, plain #859
- Korean 그냥 simply; just like that; just as it is #24
- Latvian vienkārši #139
- Lithuanian paprastai #557
- Macedonian едноставно #268
- Malay sekadar just, only, simply, merely #1,187
- Malayalam ലളിതമായി simply; in a simple manner #2,049
- Norwegian slett #1,296
- Polish zwykle simply, plainly, commonly #981
- Portuguese simplesmente simply, merely #821
- Russian просто simply, plainly, just #35
- Serbian jednostavno #408
- Slovenian preprosto simply, straightforwardly #335
- Spanish simplemente #511
- Swedish enkelt #739
- Tagalog sukat just; merely; simply #765
- Ukrainian просто just, simply, merely #26
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.