How to say “year” 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 Basque, where urte is the 79th most used word.
- Afrikaans jaar A year #141
- Albanian vjet last year #238
- Arabic عام #206
- Armenian տարի #177
- Basque urte #79
- Bengali বছর #122
- Bosnian godina #150
- Bulgarian година #303
- Catalan anys #131
- Chinese 今年 this year #527
- Croatian godina #150
- Czech rok year, the time it takes a planetary body to… #534
- Danish år #135
- Dutch jaar #146
- English months A period into which a year is divided,… #519
- Esperanto jaroj #174
- Estonian aastat a year #240
- Finnish vuotta #188
- French ans #162
- Galician anos #95
- Georgian წლის #134
- German jahre #304
- Greek χρονιά school year, academic year; year's crop or… #1,737
- Hebrew שנה #281
- Hindi साल #180
- Hungarian év #483
- Icelandic ár #152
- Indonesian tahun a solar year, the time it takes the Earth to… #104
- Italian anni #141
- Korean 올 this year #234
- Latvian gadu #257
- Lithuanian metai #414
- Macedonian години #111
- Malayalam വർഷം #233
- Norwegian år a year #137
- Persian سال #91
- Polish roku #348
- Portuguese anos #131
- Romanian ani #114
- Russian лет #151
- Serbian godina #148
- Slovak rokov #156
- Slovenian leta #181
- Spanish años #129
- Swedish år a year #121
- Tagalog taon #107
- Tamil ஆண்டுகளுக்கு #361
- Turkish yıl #195
- Ukrainian років #171
- Urdu سال #129
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.