How to say “visit” in 38 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 Finnish, where käy is the 233rd most used word.
- Afrikaans besoek to visit #248
- Albanian vizitoj to visit #2,204
- Arabic زيارة #1,363
- Armenian այցելել to visit #827
- Basque bisita #650
- Bosnian posjetiti to visit #2,291
- Bulgarian посещение #2,456
- Catalan visita to visit #1,153
- Croatian posjetiti to visit #1,581
- Czech navštívit to visit #1,613
- Danish besøg to visit #1,062
- Dutch bezoek to visit #1,083
- English shopping To visit stores or shops to browse or explore… #2,123
- Esperanto viziti to visit #901
- Finnish käy to visit, go to, attend #233
- French visite #928
- Galician visita to visit #991
- German besuch visit, call #1,236
- Greek επίσκεψη #2,027
- Hebrew ביקור A visit: an act of visiting #1,891
- Hindi दौरा tour, visit; circuit #1,227
- Icelandic heimsækja to visit, to pay a visit #1,118
- Indonesian mengunjungi to visit #1,396
- Italian visita #1,165
- Korean 방문 visit; visiting #2,371
- Lithuanian lankyti to visit #2,350
- Macedonian посета #1,324
- Malay melawat to visit #1,135
- Malayalam സന്ദർശനം visit; visiting #2,257
- Norwegian besøk to visit #1,008
- Portuguese visita to visit #1,357
- Romanian vizită #1,333
- Slovenian obisk #530
- Spanish visita to visit #1,353
- Swedish besök to visit #1,259
- Tagalog bisitahin to visit; to make a visit to #1,460
- Turkish ziyaret #952
- Vietnamese thăm to visit; to call on #874
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.