How to say “tree” in 48 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 Telugu, where మాకు is the 54th most used word.
- Afrikaans bome #644
- Albanian pemë fruit tree #1,086
- Arabic أراك toothbrush tree #320
- Armenian բուն tree trunk #904
- Basque zuhaitz #638
- Bengali গাছ #479
- Bosnian drvo #1,347
- Bulgarian ела fir tree #194
- Catalan oliver olive tree #500
- Croatian drvo #1,546
- Czech strom #2,204
- Danish træ #1,343
- Dutch boom #1,327
- Esperanto arbo #570
- Estonian puu #1,010
- French arbre #1,662
- Galician árbore #1,066
- Georgian ხე #963
- German baum #1,662
- Greek δέντρο #1,346
- Hebrew עץ #917
- Hindi कदम kadam, burflower tree, Leichhardt pine #444
- Hungarian tönkre stump, tree stump #1,726
- Icelandic tré #780
- Indonesian sejarah family tree, pedigree #757
- Italian pero pear tree #823
- Korean 나무 #711
- Latvian koka #1,616
- Lithuanian medžio #1,275
- Macedonian дрво a tree #979
- Malay pokok #724
- Malayalam മരം #443
- Norwegian treet #2,108
- Persian درخت #750
- Portuguese árvore #1,467
- Romanian copac #1,691
- Serbian drvo #1,341
- Slovak strom #1,013
- Slovenian drevo #659
- Spanish hayas beech, beech tree #1,189
- Swedish träd a tree #1,584
- Tagalog puno #393
- Tamil மருதாணி henna tree, mignonette tree #1,250
- Telugu మాకు #54
- Turkish ağaç #1,630
- Ukrainian дерево #1,412
- Urdu درخت #759
- Vietnamese thụ a tree #1,549
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.