How to say “television” 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 Basque, where telebista is the 566th most used word.
- Albanian televizor #1,508
- Basque telebista #566
- Bengali টেলিভিশন #2,059
- Bulgarian телевизия #1,830
- Catalan televisió #1,942
- Chinese 電視 television; TV; the small screen #2,131
- Czech televizi television, TV #1,202
- English tv Abbreviation of television #764
- Esperanto televido #1,751
- Finnish tv TV, television #1,596
- French pub Television ad or advert #2,396
- Galician televisión #806
- German fernsehen #1,440
- Greek τηλεόραση #878
- Hebrew טלוויזיה #1,310
- Hindi टीवी TV, television #819
- Italian tv #1,017
- Lithuanian televizorius #2,348
- Macedonian телевизија #1,214
- Malay televisyen #2,098
- Malayalam ടെലിവിഷൻ #2,191
- Norwegian tv #817
- Persian تلویزیون #2,095
- Polish telewizji #1,771
- Portuguese televisão television; television set #1,183
- Romanian televizor a television set #1,530
- Russian телевизор television set #2,458
- Slovak televízor #1,974
- Spanish televisión #1,515
- Swedish tv #799
- Tamil தொலைக்காட்சி #2,157
- Turkish televizyon #1,315
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.