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!
- Albanian – avokat
- Arabic – محام
- Basque – abokatu
- Belarusian – адвакат
- Bosnian – advokat
- Bulgarian – адвокат
- Catalan – advocat
- Chinese Simplified – 律师
- Croatian – odvjetnik
- Czech – právník
- Danish – advokat
- Dutch – advocaat
- Esperanto – advokato
- Estonian – advokaat
- Filipino – abogado
- Finnish – lakimies
- French – avocat
- Galician – avogado
- German – Anwalt
- Greek – δικηγόρος
- Hebrew – עורך דין
- Hungarian – jogász
- Icelandic – lögfræðingurIrish dlíodóir
- Indonesian – pengacara
- Italian – avvocato
- Japanese – 弁護士
- Javanese – pengacara
- Latin – peritum (just in case 🙂
- Latvian – advokāts
- Lithuanian – teisininkas
- Macedonian – адвокат
- Maltese – Avukat
- Maori – rōia
- Norwegian – advokat
- Polish – prawnik
- Portuguese – advogado
- Romanian – avocat
- Russian – адвокат
- Serbian – адвокат
- Slovak – právnik
- Slovenian – odvetnik
- Spanish – abogado
- Swedish – advokat
- Thai – ทนายความ
- Ukrainian – юрист
- Urdu – وکیل
- Welsh – cyfreithiwr
- Yiddish – אַדוואָקאַט
- Persian – وکیل
- Turkish – avukat
If you can help me to expand this list, please let me know: js@tomczak-stanislawski.pl
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