How to say “system” 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 Armenian, where է is the 1st most used word.
- Albanian sistem #1,336
- Arabic نظام #505
- Armenian է 7 in the system of Armenian numerals #1
- Bengali ব্যবস্থা #392
- Bosnian sistem #849
- Bulgarian система #795
- Catalan sistema #707
- Chinese 制度 system; institution #1,787
- Croatian sustav #982
- Czech systém #1,010
- Danish systemet #1,584
- Dutch systeem #1,112
- English henry In the International System of Units, the… #1,089
- Esperanto sistemo #1,075
- Estonian süsteem #1,357
- French système #802
- Galician sistema #563
- Greek σύστημα #742
- Hindi प्रणाली a system #896
- Hungarian rendszer #1,669
- Icelandic kerfi system, organization #1,280
- Korean 시스템 #949
- Latvian sistēma #1,109
- Lithuanian sistema #630
- Macedonian систем #624
- Malay sistem #517
- Malayalam സിസ്റ്റം #796
- Norwegian systemet a system #1,352
- Persian سیستم #1,118
- Portuguese sistema #659
- Romanian sistem #1,260
- Russian система #1,731
- Serbian sistem #848
- Slovak veda a system of knowledge of the laws of… #1,407
- Slovenian sistem #374
- Spanish sistema #744
- Swedish systemet a system, a way or method of organizing items… #1,738
- Tagalog paraan method; system; means; way #247
- Tamil நெறி procedure, system #1,818
- Turkish sistemi #1,230
- Ukrainian система #1,282
- Urdu نظام system, order #183
- Vietnamese hệ #458
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.