The word “alone” is expressed differently across languages, often reflecting cultural nuances. In Spanish, it’s solo or sola depending on gender, while in Japanese, hitori literally means “one person.” French uses seul or seule, and in Arabic, wahid (masculine) or wahida (feminine) conveys the same idea. Whether it’s yksin in Finnish or honja in Korean, the concept of being by oneself is universally recognized, though the emotional tone can vary—some languages imply solitude, Afrikaans: Alleen
- Albanian: Vetëm
- Amharic: ብቻ (Bicha)
- Arabic: وحيد (Waheed) / وحيدة (Waheeda)
- Armenian: Մենակ (Menak)
- Azerbaijani: Tək
- Basque: Bakarrik
- Belarusian: Адзін (Adzin) / Адна (Adna)
- Bengali: একা (Eka)
- Bosnian: Sam / Sama
- Bulgarian: Сам (Sam) / Сама (Sama)
- Catalan: Sol / Sola
- Cebuano: Usa ra
- Chichewa: Nokha
- Chinese (Mandarin): 一个人 (Yí gè rén) / 独自 (Dú zì)
- Croatian: Sam / Sama
- Czech: Sám / Sama
- Danish: Alene
- Dutch: Alleen
- English: Alone
- Esperanto: Sola
- Estonian: Üksi
- Filipino (Tagalog): Nag-iisa
- Finnish: Yksin
- French: Seul / Seule
- Galician: Só / Sola
- Georgian: მარტო (Mart’o)
- German: Allein
- Greek: Μόνος (Monos) / Μόνη (Moni)
- Gujarati: એકલા (Ekalā)
- Haitian Creole: Pou kont li
- Hausa: Kada
- Hawaiian: Hoʻokahi wale nō
- Hebrew: לבד (Levad)
- Hindi: अकेला (Akela) / अकेली (Akeli)
- Hmong: Ib leeg
- Hungarian: Egyedül
- Icelandic: Einn / Ein
- Igbo: Naanị
- Indonesian: Sendiri
- Irish: Aonar
- Italian: Solo / Sola
- Japanese: 一人 (Hitori)
- Javanese: Piyambakan
- Kannada: ಒಂಟಿ (Oṇṭi)
- Kazakh: Жалғыз (Zhalǵyz)
- Khmer: ម្នាក់ (Mnak)
- Kinyarwanda: Gusa
- Korean: 혼자 (Honja)
- Kurdish (Kurmanji): Tenê
- Kyrgyz: Жалгыз (Zhalgyz)
- Lao: ໂດຍລຳພັງ (Doy lám phang)
- Latin: Solus / Sola
- Latvian: Viens / Viena
- Lithuanian: Vienas / Viena
- Luxembourgish: Eleng
- Macedonian: Сам (Sam) / Сама (Sama)
- Malagasy: Irery
- Malay: Sendiri
- Malayalam: ഒറ്റയ്ക്ക് (Oṭṭaykkāy)
- Maltese: Waħdu / Waħda
- Maori: Mokemoke
- Marathi: एकटा (Ēkaṭā) / एकटी (Ēkaṭī)
- Mongolian: Ганцаараа (Gantsaaraa)
- Nepali: एक्लो (Ēklō) / एक्ली (Ēklī)
- Norwegian: Alene
- Odia: ଏକା (Ekā)
- Pashto: یوازې (Yawāzay)
- Persian: تنها (Tanha)
- Polish: Sam / Sama
- Portuguese: Sozinho / Sozinha
- Punjabi: ਇਕੱਲਾ (Ikkalā) / ਇਕੱਲੀ (Ikkalī)
- Quechua: Sapsi
- Romanian: Singur / Singură
- Russian: Один (Odin) / Одна (Odna)
- Samoan: Tasi lava
- Scots Gaelic: Leam fhìn
- Serbian: Сам (Sam) / Сама (Sama)
- Sesotho: Mong
- Shona: Woga
- Sindhi: اڪيلو (Akilo)
- Sinhala: තනියම (Thaniyama)
- Slovak: Sám / Sama
- Slovenian: Sam / Sama
- Somali: Kaligaa
- Spanish: Solo / Sola
- Sundanese: Nyalira
- Swahili: Peke yangu
- Swedish: Ensam
- Tajik: Танҳо (Tanhó)
- Tamil: தனியாக (Taṉiyāka)
- Tatar: Берүзең (Berüzäñ)
- Telugu: ఒంటరిగా (Oṇṭarigā)
- Thai: คนเดียว (Khon diao)
- Turkish: Yalnız
- Turkmen: Ýeke
- Ukrainian: Один (Odin) / Одна (Odna)
- Urdu: اکیلا (Akela) / اکیلی (Akeli)
- Uzbek: Yolgʻiz
- Vietnamese: Một mình