How to say “travel” in 44 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 Hindi, where गया is the 33rd most used word.
- Albanian udhëtim travel, journey #774
- Arabic ذهب to go, to travel #304
- Armenian ճամփորդել to travel #1,725
- Basque bidaia trip, travel #425
- Bengali সফর #1,457
- Bosnian putovanje #1,257
- Catalan viatjar to travel; to voyage #2,367
- Chinese 旅行 to go on a trip; to travel; to tour #454
- Croatian putovanje #1,219
- Dutch reis to travel #923
- English flying To travel through the air, another gas, or a… #1,383
- Esperanto vojaĝis to travel #2,109
- Estonian reisida to travel #2,332
- Finnish ajaa to drive, ride, travel, transport #838
- Galician viaxe to travel #638
- German fliegen to fly; to travel by air #865
- Hebrew נסע To travel #1,886
- Hindi गया to go, move, travel, leave, depart; to… #33
- Hungarian menj to go, travel #152
- Icelandic ferðast to travel #2,493
- Indonesian bepergian to travel #2,182
- Italian camminare to walk, to tread, to travel, to wander, to… #1,778
- Korean 여행 #714
- Latvian ceļojums trip, journey, travel #1,970
- Lithuanian keliauti to travel #775
- Macedonian патување journey, trip, travel, voyage #823
- Malay perjalanan journey; trip; travel; voyage #399
- Malayalam സഞ്ചാരം journey, travel, tour #2,181
- Norwegian far go; travel #194
- Persian سفر #474
- Polish podróż #1,547
- Portuguese viajar to travel #1,933
- Romanian călătorie #1,266
- Russian ход motion, movement, travel, progress,… #1,991
- Serbian putovanje #1,212
- Slovak cestovať to travel #1,359
- Spanish viaje to travel, journey #620
- Swedish far to go, to travel #232
- Tamil பயணம் journey, travel, voyage #274
- Telugu ప్రయాణిస్తున్న to travel, to make a journey #1,561
- Turkish uçan to fly, to travel through the air, another… #2,340
- Ukrainian подорож journey, travel #1,472
- Urdu سفر travel, trip, journey, voyage #374
- Vietnamese chuyến trip, instance of travel #758
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.