How to say “tired” in 39 different 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.
“tired” in Spanish: cansado · French: fatigué · German: müde · Italian: stanco · Turkish: yorgun
It is commonest in Danish, where ked is the 265th most used word.
Tired in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans moeg/muχ/ #359
- Arabic تعمل/taʕammala/ to be tired #211
- Armenian հոգնած/hokʰˈnɑt͡s/ to become tired, exhausted #863
- Basque nekatuta/neˈkatuˌta/ #457
- Bosnian umoran/ûmoːran/ #1,324
- Bulgarian уморен[omoˈrɛn] tired, exhausted, wearied, fatigued #1,820
- Catalan cansat[kənˈsat] tired; fatigued #1,387
- Croatian umoran/ûmoːran/ #1,394
- Czech unavená[ˈunavɛnaː] #1,855
- Danish ked[ˈkʰeðˀ] tired, sorry #265
- Dutch moe/mu/ tired, weary #918
- Esperanto laca/ˈlat͡sa/ tired, weary #1,324
- Estonian väsinud/ˈvæsinud̥/ #696
- Finnish väsynyt/ˈʋæsynyt/ tired, weary #1,553
- French fatigué/fa.ti.ɡe/ #1,786
- Galician canso[ˈkansʊ] #1,232
- German müde/ˈmyːdə/ #1,050
- Greek βαρέθηκα/vaˈreθiˌka/ to be bored, be tired #1,805
- Hindi थक/t̪ʰək/ to become tired, exhausted #1,237
- Hungarian fáradt[ˈfaːrɒtː] tired, fatigued, exhausted #1,410
- Indonesian lelah/ləˈlah/ #811
- Italian stanco/ˈstan.ko/ #1,698
- Latvian noguris/ˈnuoɡuris/ tired; indefinite past active participle of… #1,691
- Lithuanian pavargęs[pɐ²ˈʋɐrʲˑɡʲæːs] #1,312
- Macedonian уморен[ˈumɔɾɛn] #1,726
- Malay penat/pəˈnat/ tired, weary, exhausted #1,215
- Norwegian trøtt/ˈtrœt/ tired, weary #1,687
- Persian خسته[xæs.t̪ʰé] #397
- Polish zmęczony/zmɛnˈt͡ʂɔ.nɘ/ tired, weary #2,077
- Portuguese cansado/kɐ̃ˈsa.du/ sleepy, tired #1,615
- Romanian obosit[o.boˈsit] tired, weary, fatigued #1,196
- Serbian umoran/ûmoːran/ #1,279
- Slovenian utrujen/utrùːjɛn/ #608
- Spanish cansado/kanˈsado/ tired, weary, wearied #1,428
- Swedish trött/trœtː/ #688
- Telugu విసుగు/ˈʋisuɡu/ to be fatigued, tired, weary #1,068
- Turkish yorgun/joɾˈɡun/ #1,689
- Urdu تھکا/t̪ʰəkɑː/ #1,244
- Vietnamese mệt[met̚˧˨ʔ] tired, fatigued, weary #1,011
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