How to say “think” in 51 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 Chinese, where 不想 is the 32nd most used word.
- Afrikaans dink to think #66
- Albanian mendoj to think #86
- Arabic فكر to think, ponder over #664
- Armenian մտածել to think #672
- Basque pentsatu to think #133
- Bengali ভেবে to think #401
- Bosnian mislim to think #59
- Bulgarian мисля to think, to reckon #82
- Catalan pensar to think #284
- Chinese 不想 to not think #32
- Croatian mislim to think #57
- Czech asi I guess/I think #124
- Danish synes to think #222
- Dutch denk to think #88
- English consider To think about seriously #1,345
- Esperanto pensas to think #140
- Estonian arvan to believe, to assume, to think #120
- Finnish luulin to believe, think, suppose, guess #244
- French pense to think, reflect, concentrate one's mind on… #151
- Galician penso to think #227
- Georgian ვფიქრობ to think #87
- German meinst to opine, to think; to believe; to suppose #386
- Greek νομίζω to think, consider, opine #106
- Hebrew חשב to think #859
- Hindi सोचा to think, ponder #276
- Hungarian gondoltam to think something, to have some opinion #200
- Icelandic hugsa to think, to consider, to plan, to decide #176
- Indonesian pikirkan to think about, consider carefully #413
- Italian penso to think #184
- Latvian domājat to think #556
- Lithuanian galvoti to think about #712
- Macedonian нели right, don't you think #108
- Malay fikirkan to think about, to contemplate #397
- Malayalam ഓർക്കുക to think, remember #1,033
- Norwegian tror to think, believe #67
- Polish myślę to think #142
- Portuguese pensar to think #210
- Romanian gândit to think #335
- Russian думать to think #640
- Serbian mislim to think #60
- Slovak asi I guess, I think #105
- Slovenian misliti to think #565
- Spanish pensé to think, ponder #271
- Swedish tror to believe, to think #69
- Tagalog mag-isip to think #831
- Tamil யோசி to think, consider, ponder #1,249
- Telugu ఆలోచిస్తాడు to think, consider, reflect, ponder, ruminate #289
- Turkish bence I think, in my opinion #167
- Ukrainian думати to think #885
- Urdu سوچنا to think #767
- Vietnamese nghĩ to think, to contemplate #67
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.