How to say “way” in 53 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 niin is the 12th most used word.
- Afrikaans pad path; way; street #264
- Albanian si how; in what way; in what state #26
- Arabic هكذا so, thus, this way, like this #114
- Armenian այդպես so, that way, thus #79
- Basque horrela so, thus, in that way #66
- Bengali এমন in such a way, to such an extent #119
- Bosnian tako so, like that, in such a way #38
- Bulgarian така that way, thus, so #32
- Catalan així so, thus, in this way #64
- Chinese 如何 how; what; in what way #69
- Croatian tako so, like that, in such a way #40
- Czech líto way or manner of pity #366
- Danish sådan like this, like that, in this way, in that way #109
- Dutch manier way, manner #316
- English like As, the way #43
- Esperanto vojo #346
- Estonian nii this way, so #20
- Finnish niin like that, in that way, so #12
- French façon way; manner; fashion #352
- Galician xeito way, manner or fashion #236
- Georgian ისე in that way, in that manner #86
- German unterwegs on one’s way, underway, en route, in transit,… #932
- Greek αστεία in a funny way #1,443
- Hebrew כך Such, so, thus, in this way, in that way #46
- Hindi ढंग mode, manner, way #1,254
- Hungarian így thus, in this way, like this #49
- Icelandic leið route, way, course #625
- Indonesian cara #176
- Italian modo manner, way #177
- Korean 이렇게 like this, this way #91
- Latvian ceļu road, way #418
- Lithuanian tiesa by the way #116
- Macedonian така that way, thus, so #52
- Malay secara in a ... manner; by way of; through; -ly #292
- Malayalam അങ്ങനെ that way; in that manner #44
- Norwegian som as; similar to, in the same way that #20
- Persian سمت side; way; hand; direction #215
- Polish sposób way; how #239
- Portuguese assim this way; like this #96
- Romanian astfel thus, in this way, so, like that #465
- Russian туда there, that way, thither #272
- Serbian tako so, like that, in such a way #38
- Slovak spôsob way, manner #317
- Slovenian poti way, path #212
- Spanish manera way; manner; method; style #307
- Swedish så so, like that, in such a way #23
- Tagalog kalooban way of thinking #1,300
- Tamil எப்படி how, in what way #34
- Telugu దారి a way, road, path #649
- Turkish öyle in that way #47
- Ukrainian туди there, that way #287
- Urdu راستہ path, way #215
- Vietnamese đại randomly, or in an irresponsible way #228
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.