How to say “tired” in 39 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 Arabic, where تعمل is the 211th most used word.
- Afrikaans moeg #359
- Arabic تعمل to be tired #211
- Armenian հոգնած to become tired, exhausted #863
- Basque nekatuta #457
- Bosnian umoran #1,324
- Bulgarian уморен tired, exhausted, wearied, fatigued #1,820
- Catalan cansat tired; fatigued #1,387
- Croatian umoran #1,394
- Czech unavená #1,855
- Danish ked tired, sorry #265
- Dutch moe tired, weary #918
- Esperanto laca tired, weary #1,324
- Estonian väsinud #696
- Finnish väsynyt tired, weary #1,553
- French fatigué #1,786
- Galician canso #1,232
- German müde #1,050
- Greek βαρέθηκα to be bored, be tired #1,805
- Hindi थक to become tired, exhausted #1,237
- Hungarian fáradt tired, fatigued, exhausted #1,410
- Indonesian lelah #811
- Italian stanco #1,698
- Latvian noguris tired; indefinite past active participle of… #1,691
- Lithuanian pavargęs #1,312
- Macedonian уморен #1,726
- Malay penat tired, weary, exhausted #1,215
- Norwegian trøtt tired, weary #1,687
- Persian خسته #397
- Polish zmęczony tired, weary #2,077
- Portuguese cansado sleepy, tired #1,615
- Romanian obosit tired, weary, fatigued #1,196
- Serbian umoran #1,279
- Slovenian utrujen #608
- Spanish cansado tired, weary, wearied #1,428
- Swedish trött #688
- Telugu విసుగు to be fatigued, tired, weary #1,068
- Turkish yorgun #1,689
- Urdu تھکا #1,244
- Vietnamese mệt tired, fatigued, weary #1,011
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.