How to say “sort” in 39 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 Tamil, where எந்த is the 57th most used word.
- Afrikaans soort sort, kind #458
- Albanian lloj sort, kind, type #359
- Bengali একরকম of a kind, of a sort, of a type #1,187
- Bosnian vrsta kind, sort #716
- Bulgarian какъв what, what kind of, what sort of, what type of #216
- Catalan tipus type, sort, kind #411
- Chinese 一種 kind; sort; type #1,218
- Croatian vrsta kind, sort #676
- Danish ligesom sort of, kind of, as it were #277
- Dutch soort sort, kind #389
- English ordered To set in some sort of order #1,717
- Esperanto speco type; kind; sort #2,420
- Estonian sorti kind, sort, brand #1,250
- French type type; sort, kind #362
- German art kind, sort, type #471
- Greek τύπος sort, type, mould, stamp #328
- Hebrew סוג #352
- Hindi ऐसा of this sort; of this kind #129
- Hungarian ilyesmi something like this, something of the… #948
- Icelandic tegund kind, sort #1,226
- Indonesian bangsa a type of, kind, sort; like #1,636
- Korean 가지 kind, sort; variety #200
- Lithuanian rūšis kind; sort; variety #1,631
- Macedonian тип type, kind, sort #280
- Malay daging Any sort of flesh #686
- Malayalam തരം #305
- Persian نوع type, kind, sort #555
- Portuguese tipos kind; sort; type #712
- Romanian fel sort, type, kind #142
- Russian такой such, such, that/this kind/sort/type of,… #160
- Serbian vrsta kind, sort #730
- Spanish resolver to resolve, sort out, settle, address,… #1,911
- Swedish ordna to order, to sort, to put in order, to… #945
- Tamil எந்த which, what, what sort of, what kind of #57
- Telugu రకాల sort, kind, class, style, quality #696
- Turkish çeşit sort, kind, variety, type #832
- Ukrainian типу kind of, sort of, like, approximately. Used… #902
- Urdu مشعل a sort of cresset; a torch, flambeau #2,008
- Vietnamese thứ order, rank, sort, type, kind, category #84
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.