How to say “space” in 42 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 Dutch, where naar is the 36th most used word.
- Arabic موقف parking, parking space, parking lot #798
- Armenian առջև before, in front of in space #636
- Basque espazio #1,131
- Bengali মহাকাশ #2,417
- Bosnian prostor #1,567
- Bulgarian пространство #1,943
- Catalan espai #781
- Chinese 太空 outer space #730
- Croatian prostor #1,593
- Czech prostor #1,784
- Dutch naar to, towards in time, space, consequence,… #36
- English go To move through space #47
- Esperanto spaco space, room #1,431
- Estonian ruumis place, location; space, room #1,350
- Finnish väliä gap, interspace, space, interstice #602
- French espace #1,306
- Galician espazo #773
- German raum #1,030
- Greek χώρο area, space, room #839
- Hebrew חלל space, void #1,641
- Hindi अंतरिक्ष #1,491
- Icelandic pláss room, space #899
- Indonesian ruang #392
- Italian spazio #1,018
- Korean 자리 space, place, site #626
- Latvian starp used to locate an object in the space defined… #269
- Macedonian простор #1,146
- Malay angkasa space, sky #963
- Malayalam ഇടം a space, place, area #833
- Norwegian plass room, space #529
- Persian فاصله distance, space between things #561
- Polish miejsce place, room, space #215
- Serbian prostor #1,577
- Slovak priestor #905
- Slovenian prostor space, room #344
- Spanish espacio #959
- Swedish rymden a space, a volume #2,399
- Tagalog pagitan space; gap; interval; distance between two… #706
- Tamil விண்வெளி #557
- Turkish arada space or time between two things #416
- Urdu وقفہ space, gap #2,418
- Vietnamese dưới Lower in space: under, below, down #375
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.