How to say “station” in 30 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 Slovenian, where postaja is the 443rd most used word.
- Afrikaans stasie #806
- Arabic محطة #746
- Armenian կայարան #637
- Basque geltoki #1,474
- Bosnian stanice #1,561
- Catalan comissaria police station #2,408
- Chinese 警局 police department; police station #744
- Croatian kombi station wagon #1,760
- Czech stanice #1,809
- Esperanto stacidomo train station, station house #1,761
- Estonian jaama railway station #1,850
- French station #1,932
- Galician estación #1,065
- Georgian სადგური #1,140
- German station stop, stopover, station #2,375
- Hindi स्टेशन #901
- Korean 역 #1,114
- Lithuanian stotis #1,330
- Macedonian станица station, terminal #780
- Malay balai hall, station, large building for public… #1,340
- Malayalam സ്റ്റേഷൻ #934
- Norwegian stasjonen a station #1,576
- Persian ایستگاه #1,754
- Polish stacji #2,005
- Serbian stanice #1,624
- Slovenian postaja #443
- Spanish estación #1,153
- Tagalog estasyon railway station; train station #1,391
- Urdu اسٹیشن station, stop #875
- Vietnamese đài a network or station #925
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.