How to say “teach” in 32 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 Icelandic, where kenna is the 364th most used word.
- Albanian mësuar to teach, instruct, train #480
- Basque irakatsi to teach #573
- Bengali শেখানো to teach #1,564
- Bosnian naučiti to teach, train, instruct #1,179
- Catalan ensenyar to teach #860
- Croatian naučiti to teach, train, instruct #882
- Czech naučit to teach #1,257
- Danish lære to teach #506
- Esperanto instruis to inform, instruct, teach, train #722
- Estonian õpetada to teach #1,359
- Finnish opettaa to teach, instruct #1,809
- Galician ensinar to teach #2,088
- Georgian ასწავლის to teach #1,470
- German lehrer to teach; to be a teacher #1,666
- Hebrew לימד To teach #1,732
- Hindi सिखाया to teach #1,275
- Icelandic kenna to teach, to tutor #364
- Indonesian mengajar to teach #1,691
- Italian insegnato to teach #1,707
- Lithuanian mokyti to teach #1,918
- Macedonian научи to learn, teach #603
- Malay ajar to teach #680
- Malayalam പഠിപ്പിക്കുക to teach #2,352
- Norwegian lærte to teach #888
- Polish nauczyć to educate, to teach #1,369
- Portuguese ensinar to teach #2,198
- Serbian naučiti to teach, train, instruct #1,317
- Slovak naučiť to teach #696
- Slovenian učiti to teach #1,048
- Swedish lär to teach, to instruct #523
- Tagalog magturo to teach #1,560
- Vietnamese dạy to teach, to train #684
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.