How to say “target” in 33 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 Swedish, where träffa is the 266th most used word.
- Afrikaans teiken aim; target; goal #962
- Armenian թիրախ target, butt #731
- Bosnian meta #1,304
- Chinese 目的 objective; goal; target; aim; purpose;… #415
- Croatian meta #1,401
- Czech cíl goal, objective, target #1,199
- Danish gange Used between two or more sizes to specify a… #269
- Dutch doelwit target, prey #1,615
- English wild Inaccurately; not on target #1,313
- Finnish kohde #1,819
- French cible #1,409
- German ziel #967
- Greek στόχος #1,343
- Hebrew מטרה a target, aim #1,036
- Hindi निशाना aim, target #2,453
- Hungarian célpont #2,159
- Icelandic skotmark a target #1,424
- Indonesian to initialism of target operasi #433
- Korean 목표 goal, target, objective, aim, bullseye,… #2,081
- Latvian mērķis #768
- Macedonian мета #1,479
- Malay sasaran #596
- Malayalam ലക്ഷ്യം #433
- Persian هدف #394
- Portuguese alvo #1,116
- Russian цель goal, target, aim, end, object #1,228
- Serbian meta #1,414
- Slovenian tarča #621
- Swedish träffa to hit a target #266
- Tamil இலக்கு target, aim, scope #380
- Turkish hedef #1,077
- Urdu ہدف #507
- Vietnamese đích #944
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.