Let’s be honest… it’s how most of us are hoping to end our Valentine’s Day – naked! So here’s how to say naked in the 50 languages of Europe in a Day!
Translating adjectives can be tricky. For languages whose adjectives change depending on the grammatic gender of the noun (for the vast majority of ‘gendered’ languages, ‘man’ is a masculine noun and ‘woman’ is feminine), I have written them in the following way: [Masculine Adjective / Feminine Adjective].
Other languages differentiate between adjectives in different ways, while some are like English just have one form of the adjective that covers all nouns! So basically, here you should have enough adjective to communicate to anyone that you want them to get naked with you 😉
- Albanian – Lakuriq
- Arabic – عريانة / عريان (Uryan / Uryana)
- Armenian – Մերկ (Merk)
- Azerbaijani – Çılpaq
- Basque – Biluzik
- Belarusian – Голы / Голая (Holi / Holaya)
- Bulgarian – Гол / Гола (Gol / Gola)
- Catalan – Nu / Nua
- Croatian – Gol / Gola
- Czech – Nahý / Nahá
- Danish – Nøgen
- Dutch – Naakt
- Estonian – Alasti
- Faroese – Nakin
- Finnish – Alasti
- French – Nu / Nue
- Georgian – შიშველი (Shishveli)
- German – Nackt
- Greek – Γυμνός / Γυμνή (Gymnós / Gymní)
- Greenlandic – Tamaqanngitsoq
- Hungarian – Meztelen
- Icelandic – Nakinn / Nakin
- Irish Gaelic – Nocht
- Italian – Nudo / Nuda
- Jèrriais – Nu / Nue
- Latin – Nūdus / Nūda
- Latvian – Kails / Kaila
- Lithuanian – Núogas / Nuogà
- Low German – Naakt
- Luxembourgish – Plakeg
- Macedonian – Гол / Гола (Gol / Gola)
- Maltese – Għarwien / Għarwiena
- Manx – Rooisht
- Monégasque – Nüu / Nüa
- Northern Sami – Álás
- Norwegian – Naken
- Polish – Nagi / Naga
- Portuguese – Nu / Nua
- Romanian – Gol / Goală
- Russian – Голый / Голая (Goliy / Golaya)
- Scots Gaelic – Rùisgte
- Serbian – Гол / Гола (Gol / Gola)
- Slovak – Nahý / Nahá
- Slovene – Gol / Gola
- Spanish – Desnudo / Desnuda
- Swedish – Naken
- Swiss German – Blutt
- Turkish – Çıplak
- Ukrainian – Голий / Гола (Holiy / Hola)
- Welsh – Noeth
Author: James Scanlan
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