How to say “train” 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 Tagalog, where tren is the 267th most used word.
- Afrikaans trein #551
- Albanian mësuar to teach, instruct, train #480
- Basque tren #742
- Bengali ট্রেন #552
- Bosnian naučiti to teach, train, instruct #1,179
- Bulgarian влак #1,833
- Catalan tren #922
- Croatian naučiti to teach, train, instruct #882
- Czech vlak #1,640
- Danish træner to train, coach #1,421
- Dutch trein #1,207
- Esperanto trajno #580
- Estonian rong #1,471
- German zug #1,039
- Greek τρένο #1,241
- Hebrew רכבת train vehicle carrying a large number of… #1,298
- Hindi ट्रेन train, rail #1,639
- Icelandic lest train, file, row, line #968
- Indonesian nah Used to conclude a speech or train of… #334
- Italian treno #1,273
- Korean 기차 #1,398
- Lithuanian traukinys #1,046
- Macedonian воз #1,268
- Malayalam ട്രെയിൻ #693
- Norwegian toget a train #1,224
- Persian قطار #659
- Polish pociąg train vehicle carrying a large number of… #2,089
- Portuguese comboio #1,251
- Romanian tren #1,524
- Russian поезд train, a line of connected railway cars #1,765
- Serbian voz #1,226
- Slovak vlak #833
- Slovenian vlak #534
- Spanish tren #932
- Swedish tåget a train #1,555
- Tagalog tren #267
- Turkish tren #1,344
- Ukrainian поїзд #2,091
- Vietnamese dạy to teach, to train #684
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.