How to say “today” in 49 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 今天 is the 27th most used word.
- Afrikaans vandag #177
- Albanian sot #158
- Arabic اليوم #76
- Armenian այսօր #182
- Basque gaur #75
- Bengali আজ #132
- Bosnian danas #184
- Bulgarian днес #169
- Catalan avui #246
- Chinese 今天 #27
- Croatian danas #184
- Czech dnes #177
- Dutch vandaag #282
- English yesterday On the day before today #688
- Esperanto hodiaŭ #152
- Estonian täna #135
- Finnish tänään #173
- French aujourd'hui #268
- Galician hoxe #165
- Georgian დღეს #103
- German heute #141
- Greek σήμερα #177
- Hebrew היום #115
- Hindi आज #153
- Hungarian ma #95
- Indonesian sekarang now, today #39
- Italian oggi #233
- Korean 오늘 #69
- Latvian šodien #198
- Lithuanian šiandien #125
- Macedonian денес #188
- Malay sekarang now, today #38
- Malayalam ഇന്ന് today, this day #61
- Persian امروز #121
- Polish dziś #196
- Portuguese hoje #182
- Romanian azi #289
- Russian сегодня #122
- Serbian danas #184
- Slovak dnes #93
- Slovenian danes #122
- Spanish hoy today, tonight #200
- Swedish idag #331
- Tagalog ngayon now; today; by now; yet; currently; at present #38
- Tamil இன்று #108
- Telugu నేడు today, this day #147
- Turkish bugün #170
- Ukrainian сьогодні #145
- Urdu آج #131
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.