Diabetes Translations
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 |
Bet merkachat |
Bet Cholim |
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 |