Have you ever needed to tell someone you have diabetes, ask for a pharmacy or hospital? Probably not, but hey… Now you can, with this table taken from the Children with Diabetes website.

Below is a table which includes these 3 phrases in 26 different languages (I’ll be amazed if you can pronounce some of them!).

If you want to translate a more detailed phrase or sentence try ‘BabelFish’ on AltaVista.com or Google Translate.

Translation Table


Language "I Have Diabetes" "Pharmacy" "Hospital"
Afrikaans Ek het diabetes Apteek Hospitaal
Arabic Indee almardh as-sukree
(Meaning: I have the sugar disease)
Saidaliyya Musteshfa
Bulgarian Az imam diabetes or Az imam zakharna bolest Apteka Bolnitza
Czech Mám cukrovku Lékárna Nemocnice
Danish Jeg har diabetes or Jeg har sukkersyge Apotek Hospital
Dutch Ik heb diabetes or Ik heb suikerziekte Apotheek Ziekenhuis
Finnish Minulla on diabetes Apteekki Sairaala
French J'ai le diabete Pharmacie Hôspital
Gaelic (Scots) Tha an galair-fuail orm
(HAH ahn GAH-layr fooale orrom)
Literally, The diabetes is on me
Ceamadair Ospadal
German Ich habe Diabetes Apotheke Krankenhaus
Ghanaian (TWI) Me wo diabetes
Hebrew Yesh li suceret
Hebrew text
Bet merkachat
Hebrew text
Bet Cholim
Hebrew text
Hungarian Cukorbeteg vagyok
Italian Io ho il diabete
(pronounced eeo ho..., not eye-o ho...)
Farmacia Ospedale
Korean Jo Nun Dang-Nyo Hwanja Imnida
(Literally, I am a diabetes patient)
Yak-Kuk Byng-Won
Latvian Man ir diabets
("ia" pronounced "eea")
Aptieka
("ie" pronounced as in "Vienesse")
Slimnica
("c" pronounced as "ts")
Norwegian Jeg har diabetes
Polish Mam cukrzyce Apteka Szpital
Portuguese Eu Tenho Diabetes Farmacia Hospital
Serbo-Croatian Ja Imam Diabetes Apoteka Bolnica
Slovene Imam diabetes or Imam sladkorno bolezen
(Meaning: I have sugar disease)
Lekarna Bolnisnica
Spanish Yo tengo diabetes Farmacia or Botica Hospital
Swedish Jag har diabetes Apotek Sjukhus
Turkish Seker hastasiyim Eczane Hastane