How to say “somewhere” in 31 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 Bengali, where কোথাও is the 264th most used word.
- Afrikaans elders elsewhere, somewhere else #899
- Albanian diku #403
- Bengali কোথাও #264
- Bosnian negdje #630
- Bulgarian някъде #418
- Chinese 走路 to walk; to get somewhere by foot #775
- Croatian negdje #493
- Czech někde #512
- Dutch ergens somewhere, anywhere #391
- Esperanto ie #738
- Finnish johonkin to somewhere #1,573
- French ailleurs elsewhere; somewhere else #748
- Georgian სადმე somewhere, someplace #391
- German irgendwo #748
- Greek κάπου #440
- Hebrew איפשהו #1,089
- Hindi कहीं somewhere, anywhere #269
- Hungarian valahol #662
- Korean 어딘가 somewhere; some place #1,076
- Latvian iekļūt to get into, to enter somewhere #2,032
- Lithuanian kažkur #389
- Macedonian некаде #374
- Polish gdzieś #372
- Portuguese algures somewhere, elsewhere #1,769
- Romanian undeva #574
- Russian где-то #666
- Serbian negde #491
- Slovenian nekje #310
- Spanish lleva to take somewhere #590
- Swedish lägg to place lying somewhere, to place/put in a… #358
- Ukrainian десь #409
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.