How to say “situation” 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 Bosnian, where sranje is the 213th most used word.
- Afrikaans situasie #553
- Albanian gjendje situation, state, condition #613
- Bengali অবস্থা state, condition, situation, circumstances #228
- Bosnian sranje A very difficult situation, big trouble #213
- Bulgarian ситуация #1,209
- Catalan situació #776
- Chinese 情況 situation; status; circumstances #830
- Croatian sranje A very difficult situation, big trouble #256
- Czech situaci #1,156
- Dutch geval case, situation, instance #548
- English case An actual event, situation, or fact #347
- Esperanto situacio situation, state of affairs #1,017
- Estonian olukord #842
- Finnish tilanne situation, state of affairs, circumstances #727
- French situation #755
- Galician situación #464
- German dran to be in a particular situation #412
- Hebrew מצב a shape, a situation, a state #494
- Hindi स्थिति #454
- Hungarian helyzet #348
- Italian situazione situation, position, condition, circumstances #642
- Korean 상황 conditions, the situation #870
- Latvian situācija #1,197
- Lithuanian situacija #805
- Macedonian случај case, situation #272
- Malay situasi #771
- Malayalam സ്ഥിതി #675
- Norwegian situasjonen a situation #1,136
- Persian اوضاع condition, situation, state #414
- Polish sytuacji #1,172
- Portuguese situação #657
- Romanian cazul case, circumstance, situation #359
- Russian ситуация #1,632
- Serbian sranje A very difficult situation, big trouble #259
- Slovak situácia #823
- Spanish situación situation, scenario, picture #752
- Swedish situationen a situation #1,588
- Tagalog sitwasyon #619
- Tamil நிலை condition, state, situation, status #540
- Telugu పరిస్థితి state, situation, condition #319
- Turkish durum situation; status, condition #375
- Ukrainian ситуація #1,463
- Vietnamese nỗi status; situation; state #839
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.