How to say “word” in 50 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 Bulgarian, where да is the 1st most used word.
- Afrikaans woord #294
- Albanian fjalë #291
- Armenian բառ #397
- Basque hitz #34
- Bengali শব্দ #276
- Bosnian bilo generalization particle used before another… #52
- Bulgarian да word used to indicate agreement or… #1
- Catalan paraula #567
- Croatian bilo generalization particle used before another… #52
- Czech slovo #572
- Danish ord #380
- Dutch woord #587
- English name Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a… #186
- Esperanto vortoj #689
- Estonian sõna #431
- Finnish sana #1,316
- French mot #514
- Galician palabra #418
- Georgian სიტყვა #277
- German wort word as an isolated unit #553
- Greek λόγο #377
- Hebrew מונח term, specific word #2,374
- Hindi बोल #282
- Hungarian szó #229
- Icelandic þær they, nominative plural of the word hún #461
- Indonesian kata #372
- Italian parola #559
- Korean 말씀 word or speech #461
- Latvian ļoti used to intensify the meaning of the word it… #63
- Lithuanian žodis #545
- Macedonian збор #350
- Malay perkataan A word #690
- Malayalam വാക്ക് #189
- Norwegian ord a word #409
- Persian کلمه #465
- Polish słowa #570
- Romanian cuvânt #845
- Russian слово word, term #564
- Serbian bilo generalization particle used before another… #51
- Slovak slovo #343
- Slovenian beseda #458
- Spanish palabra #531
- Swedish ord a word #444
- Tagalog salita #379
- Tamil வார்த்தை #458
- Telugu జో hush! a word used in lulling a child to sleep #323
- Turkish söz word, statement, speech #228
- Ukrainian поговорити to talk, to speak, to have a word #359
- Urdu لفظ word, term #457
- Vietnamese lời word; utterances #195
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.