How to say “type” in 43 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 तरह is the 48th most used word.
- Albanian lloj sort, kind, type #359
- Arabic نمط pattern, type, style, manner, mode, wise #1,802
- Basque mota type, kind, class #423
- Bengali কেমন how, what type of or what kind of #137
- Bosnian tip #346
- Bulgarian какъв what, what kind of, what sort of, what type of #216
- Catalan tipus type, sort, kind #411
- Chinese 一種 kind; sort; type #1,218
- Croatian tip #345
- Czech typ #1,170
- Danish type a type #1,465
- Dutch moorden murder, a type of killing legally in a more… #1,319
- English kind A type, race or category; a group of entities… #207
- Esperanto speco type; kind; sort #2,420
- Estonian tüüp #598
- Finnish tyyppi #697
- French type type; sort, kind #362
- Galician tipo #231
- Georgian ტიპის #971
- German art kind, sort, type #471
- Greek τύπος sort, type, mould, stamp #328
- Hindi तरह type, kind #48
- Icelandic konar kind, type #449
- Indonesian jenis type, kind #666
- Italian liceo a type of Italian secondary school/high… #1,900
- Latvian tips #1,810
- Macedonian каков what kind of, what type of #274
- Malay jenis #448
- Malayalam അത്തരം that type #578
- Norwegian typen a type #1,172
- Persian نوع type, kind, sort #555
- Polish rodzaju kind, type #1,316
- Portuguese tipos kind; sort; type #712
- Romanian fel sort, type, kind #142
- Russian такой such, such, that/this kind/sort/type of,… #160
- Serbian tip #375
- Slovenian tip #223
- Swedish skriva to write, to type, to copy; to put letters… #597
- Tagalog uri type; class; kind #485
- Turkish tip #1,580
- Ukrainian тип #1,327
- Urdu قسم kind, type, category, brand #150
- Vietnamese loại species, kind, type, category, sort #391
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.