How to say “strike” in 43 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 Basque, where jo is the 152nd most used word.
- Afrikaans geskrap to strike or cross out #1,845
- Albanian rrahur to strike, beat #1,647
- Arabic ضرب to strike, to beat, to hit #871
- Armenian զարկել to strike, hit, knock, tap #1,484
- Basque jo to hit, strike, punch #152
- Bengali আঘাত blow, strike, hit #302
- Bosnian udariti to physically strike, to hit #2,345
- Catalan cop hit, blow, strike #201
- Chinese 走向 #1,270
- Croatian udariti to physically strike, to hit #2,041
- Dutch slag a blow, knock, strike #1,066
- English beat To hit; to strike #654
- Esperanto trafis to hit, strike #669
- Finnish lyö to hit, strike, knock #1,718
- French frappé to hit, to strike, to bash #1,485
- Galician bates to hit; to strike #1,380
- German angriff attack, offensive, strike, assault,… #1,535
- Greek χτύπησες to strike, knock, hit, beat #2,298
- Hebrew פגיעה a blow, a strike, a hit #1,638
- Hindi मार to beat, hit, strike, knock #171
- Hungarian ütött to hit, strike, beat, knock, slap, smack #1,983
- Icelandic slá to hit, to strike #786
- Indonesian memukul to hit, to strike, to beat #856
- Korean 쳐 to hit, to beat, to strike, to slap, to pound #792
- Latvian sit to hit, to strike, to beat #1,234
- Lithuanian mušti to beat, strike, hit #2,227
- Macedonian удри to hit, strike, punch #594
- Malay pukul to hit, to strike, to beat #365
- Malayalam സമരം #918
- Norwegian treffe to hit, strike #429
- Persian بزن to beat, hit, strike #177
- Romanian lovit to hit; to strike #662
- Russian удар hit, blow, strike, kick, punch, cuff #1,292
- Slovak udrel to strike, to hit #1,019
- Slovenian udariti to hit, to strike #1,204
- Spanish golpe hit, blow, strike #1,251
- Swedish jack a narrow indentation from a strike of a sharp… #500
- Tamil படுத்த to strike, land on, fall on, touch, come into… #1,273
- Telugu కొట్టు a blow, a stroke, a strike #582
- Turkish vur to hit, to strike, to pound, to beat #1,110
- Ukrainian удар blow, hit, strike, stroke #1,037
- Urdu مارنا to beat, hit, strike #822
- Vietnamese đánh to strike, usually with one's palms or a… #250
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.