I am trying to find lists of the top 1000 (or so) most commonly-used words in various languages, listed next to their corresponding English translation. I can find a list such this, but it doesn’t give the English translation.
I would like to find theses lists for as many languages as possible. Thanks!
Spanish.. I can find lists for French, German, Danish, Polish, etc. on Google, but not with an English translation.
Something like this? Out of print currently, but lots of used copies floating around.
Perhaps you are looking for a Swadesh list. The Wikipedia article contains links to Swadesh lists for hundreds of languages.
I would like for the list to be organized by usage, not alphabetically or otherwise. I would also like them to be electronic-format. The Swadesh list seems to be arbitrarily ordered, perhaps its ordered by subject matter… the Spanish list linked by Panurge is alphabetical.
I remember having seen here a link to a page (I think it was a wikipedia page) with a list of the words (I think indeed 1000 or something similar) the most useful to know (some were surprising, like “bucket”, for instance) in a foreign language.
I suspect it’s closely related to the OP’s question, and I would like to find it again. It isn’t the Swadesh list mentioned above, though.
ETA : It wasn’t the most common words, either. It was supposed to be an universally valid list (in the sense that if you knew those words you should be able to express most of what you might need to say).