How to say “task” in 38 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 göra is the 61st most used word.
- Albanian detyrë duty, task, assignment #901
- Arabic مهمة job, task, function, duty #490
- Basque lan work, task #87
- Bengali কাম work, task, labour #547
- Bosnian zadatak task, assignment #1,036
- Bulgarian задача task, problem, job #1,520
- Chinese 使命 mission; set task; assignment #1,237
- Croatian zadatak task, assignment #1,065
- Czech úkol #1,237
- Danish job a task #389
- Dutch missie mission, task #1,016
- English job A task #264
- Esperanto tasko task, assigned work #1,024
- Estonian taskus inessive singular of task #1,715
- Finnish toimia chore, task, job, duty #1,165
- Galician tarefa chore, task #1,469
- Hebrew משימה a task, a mission #1,258
- Hindi काम work, task, labour #81
- Icelandic verkefni task, assignment, project #613
- Indonesian tugas #588
- Italian faccenda task, labour/labor #1,708
- Korean 임무 duty; task; mission #926
- Latvian uzdevums task, duty #1,010
- Lithuanian užduotis a task, assignment, work #857
- Macedonian задача task, assignment #890
- Malay cubaan an attempt to do a certain task #1,890
- Norwegian oppdrag an assignment, mission, task #1,273
- Persian مهم important task, important affair #185
- Russian задание assignment, task #2,023
- Serbian zadatak task, assignment #1,010
- Slovak úloha #1,167
- Spanish tarea #2,152
- Swedish göra work, task #61
- Tagalog gawain task; work; duty #886
- Tamil காரியம் #1,103
- Turkish iş work, task, deed #139
- Ukrainian завдання task, job, assignment #1,059
- Urdu کام task, action, work #65
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.