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It’s holiday time, so we travel, visit new places and meet new people. One of the most common questions that we get asked is “What do you do?”.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could answer it in the local language?

To make it easier, I prepared a cheat sheet with word ‘lawyer’ in 50 languages from all around the world. Enjoy!

  1. Albanian – avokat
  2. Arabic – محام
  3. Basque – abokatu
  4. Belarusian – адвакат
  5. Bosnian – advokat
  6. Bulgarian – адвокат
  7. Catalan – advocat
  8. Chinese Simplified – 律师
  9. Croatian – odvjetnik
  10. Czech – právník
  11. Danish – advokat
  12. Dutch – advocaat
  13. Esperanto – advokato
  14. Estonian – advokaat
  15. Filipino – abogado
  16. Finnish – lakimies
  17. French – avocat
  18. Galician – avogado
  19. German – Anwalt
  20. Greek – δικηγόρος
  21. Hebrew – עורך דין
  22. Hungarian – jogász
  23. Icelandic – lögfræðingurIrish dlíodóir
  24. Indonesian – pengacara
  25. Italian – avvocato
  26. Japanese – 弁護士
  27. Javanese – pengacara
  28. Latin – peritum (just in case 🙂
  29. Latvian – advokāts
  30. Lithuanian – teisininkas
  31. Macedonian – адвокат
  32. Maltese – Avukat
  33. Maori – rōia
  34. Norwegian – advokat
  35. Polish – prawnik
  36. Portuguese – advogado
  37. Romanian – avocat
  38. Russian – адвокат
  39. Serbian – адвокат
  40. Slovak – právnik
  41. Slovenian – odvetnik
  42. Spanish – abogado
  43. Swedish – advokat
  44. Thai – ทนายความ
  45. Ukrainian – юрист
  46. Urdu – وکیل
  47. Welsh – cyfreithiwr
  48. Yiddish – אַדוואָקאַט
  49. Persian – وکیل
  50. Turkish – avukat

If you can help me to expand this list, please let me know: js@tomczak-stanislawski.pl

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