How to say “video” in 32 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 Bengali, where ভিডিও is the 596th most used word.
- Arabic فيديو #1,206
- Bengali ভিডিও #596
- Bosnian kamera video camera #1,425
- Bulgarian видео #1,527
- Catalan vídeo #1,635
- Croatian kamera video camera #1,427
- Czech video #1,517
- Danish video video recorder #1,911
- Dutch video video, movie #1,391
- Estonian video #1,397
- French vidéo #1,196
- German video #1,903
- Greek βίντεο #1,013
- Hebrew וידאו a video #1,420
- Hindi वीडियो #1,271
- Korean 비디오 #793
- Latvian video #1,054
- Lithuanian video #1,153
- Macedonian видео #1,244
- Malayalam വീഡിയോ #680
- Norwegian videoen a video #2,481
- Polish kamery video camera #2,120
- Portuguese vídeo #1,311
- Romanian video #1,464
- Russian видео #1,322
- Serbian kamera video camera #1,501
- Slovak video #702
- Spanish video video rental shop #1,811
- Tagalog video #946
- Turkish kamera video camera #1,287
- Ukrainian відео #1,629
- Vietnamese video #1,708
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.