How to say “street” in 48 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 Indonesian, where jalan is the 178th most used word.
- Afrikaans pad path; way; street #264
- Albanian rrugë road, street #315
- Arabic شارع #690
- Armenian փողոց #697
- Basque kalean #463
- Bengali রাস্তা road, street #281
- Bosnian ulice #1,170
- Bulgarian улица #1,201
- Catalan carrer #671
- Chinese 街上 on the street #699
- Croatian ulice #1,209
- Czech ulici #947
- Danish gaden #1,004
- Dutch straat street, paved way #837
- Esperanto strato #747
- Estonian tänav #1,839
- Finnish kadulla #2,273
- French rue street, road #725
- Galician rúa #338
- Georgian ქუჩის #1,207
- German straße street; road #719
- Greek δρόμο roadway, road, street, way #361
- Hebrew רחוב #1,017
- Hindi रास्ता road, path, street #385
- Hungarian utcán #1,549
- Icelandic götunni street, road #902
- Indonesian jalan road; way; street #178
- Italian strada road, way, street #407
- Korean 길 a road, a path, a street, a track; passage,… #449
- Latvian ielas street, road #759
- Lithuanian gatvės #780
- Macedonian улица #539
- Malay jalan path; road; street; track; way #182
- Malayalam തെരുവ് #905
- Norwegian vei road, street, path #217
- Polish ulicy #1,024
- Portuguese rua street; road #635
- Romanian strada #1,096
- Serbian ulice #1,208
- Slovak ulici #659
- Slovenian ulici #425
- Spanish calle #602
- Swedish gatan a street #1,024
- Tagalog kalsada road; street #1,137
- Tamil வீதி street, especially a broad one #383
- Turkish sokak street, alley #1,414
- Urdu گلی street, lane #1,016
- Vietnamese đường road; street; path; route; trace #188
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.