How to say “wonderful” in 31 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 Arabic, where رائع is the 95th most used word.
- Afrikaans wonderlik amazing, wonderful, great #337
- Arabic رائع great, wonderful #95
- Armenian հրաշալի #274
- Bosnian divan #1,130
- Bulgarian чудесен beautiful, lovely, wonderful, marvellous,… #1,442
- Chinese 奇妙 fantastic; wonderful; marvelous #1,306
- Croatian divan #1,367
- Dutch heerlijk wonderful, great #1,096
- English fantastic Wonderful; marvelous; excellent;… #1,505
- Esperanto mirinda #989
- Finnish upea great, wonderful, amazing, spectacular #1,110
- Georgian მშვენიერი #360
- German toll great, nice, wonderful #387
- Greek σούπερ super, wonderful, awesome #2,137
- Hebrew נהדר great, wonderful #199
- Hindi कमाल great, wonderful, excellent #1,340
- Hungarian csodálatos wonderful, marvelous, amazing #609
- Icelandic yndislegur wonderful, excellent #1,903
- Italian meraviglioso marvellous, wonderful, splendid, glorious #1,603
- Latvian lieliski great, wonderful, excellent, wonderfully,… #149
- Lithuanian puikus excellent, wonderful #384
- Macedonian прекрасна wonderful, amazing, magnificent, delightful,… #615
- Norwegian vidunderlig like a wonder, wonderful #2,348
- Portuguese maravilhoso #1,230
- Romanian minunat #376
- Serbian divan #1,037
- Spanish maravilloso wonderful, marvelous #958
- Swedish underbar wonderful, marvelous #1,133
- Tamil செம்ம awesome, amazing, wonderful #2,153
- Ukrainian чудовий wonderful, marvellous, excellent, great #903
- Vietnamese diệu effective, marvellous, wonderful #1,590
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.