The 5,000 most common Bosnian words
Ranked by how often they actually turn up in spoken dialogue, not by how useful somebody guessed they would be.
Every number below is counted from a corpus, and the corpus is named at the bottom.
What each step buys you
Learn the first 100 words of Bosnian and you follow 43.9% of everyday speech. The first 1000 take you to 67.4%. After that every thousand words buys less than the thousand before it, which is exactly why the order matters.
| Words known | Speech followed | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 19.8% | |
| 50 | 36.2% | |
| 100 | 43.9% | |
| 250 | 54.0% | |
| 500 | 61.0% | |
| 1,000 | 67.4% | |
| 2,000 | 73.3% | |
| 3,000 | 76.6% | |
| 5,000 | 80.4% | |
| 8,000 | 83.7% | |
| 10,000 | 85.3% | |
| 15,000 | 87.9% | |
| 20,000 | 89.6% |
Comfortable reading starts around 98%. Everything before that is still worth doing, but the first hundred words buy you a foothold, not comprehension.
The first 100 words of Bosnian
In order. The percentage is the share of ordinary speech you cover once you know that word and every word above it.
- 1da3.99%
- 2je7.87%
- 3ne9.79%
- 4se11.69%
- 5i13.44%
- 6u15.14%
- 7to16.55%
- 8sam17.91%
- 9na18.87%
- 10ti19.78%
- 11mi20.59%
- 12si21.39%
- 13za22.18%
- 14li22.91%
- 15Å¡to23.59%
- 16ja24.22%
- 17su24.79%
- 18sa25.33%
- 19ali25.88%
- 20Å¡ta26.4%
- 21nije26.9%
- 22ovo27.34%
- 23samo27.77%
- 24te28.21%
- 25me28.64%
- 26a29.05%
- 27od29.47%
- 28ga29.87%
- 29bi30.27%
- 30kako30.65%
- 31o31.02%
- 32dobro31.38%
- 33ako31.72%
- 34sve32.05%
- 35smo32.38%
- 36kao32.7%
- 37tako32.99%
- 38će33.28%
- 39znam33.56%
- 40s33.82%
- 41nisam34.09%
- 42mogu34.35%
- 43pa34.6%
- 44ste34.85%
- 45bio35.09%
- 46biti35.32%
- 47redu35.54%
- 48on35.76%
- 49zašto35.98%
- 50još36.19%
- 51bilo36.41%
- 52koji36.61%
- 53ću36.82%
- 54nešto37.02%
- 55vas37.22%
- 56hvala37.41%
- 57kad37.61%
- 58iz37.8%
- 59mislim37.98%
- 60ima38.17%
- 61ili38.34%
- 62ih38.52%
- 63sada38.69%
- 64znaš38.86%
- 65onda39.02%
- 66ovdje39.18%
- 67do39.34%
- 68moj39.5%
- 69vam39.66%
- 70ovde39.81%
- 71zar39.97%
- 72kada40.12%
- 73možda40.27%
- 74više40.42%
- 75bila40.57%
- 76rekao40.72%
- 77bih40.87%
- 78mu41.02%
- 79nema41.16%
- 80nas41.31%
- 81malo41.46%
- 82ona41.6%
- 83mene41.74%
- 84treba41.88%
- 85molim42.02%
- 86ništa42.15%
- 87tebe42.29%
- 88imam42.41%
- 89hajde42.54%
- 90hej42.67%
- 91sad42.79%
- 92tamo42.92%
- 93ni43.04%
- 94tu43.16%
- 95nam43.28%
- 96ko43.39%
- 97jesi43.51%
- 98zbog43.63%
- 99možeš43.75%
- 100želim43.86%
Open all 5,000 words in the codex →
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Where Bosnian comes from
Proto-Indo-European › Balto-Slavic › Slavic › South Slavic › Bosnian
Cut off from the rest by Hungarian and Romanian arriving in between.
Where the numbers come from
Frequencies counted over the OpenSubtitles 2018 dialogue corpus, 74,508,044 tokens of Bosnian in total. Lists compiled by Hermit Dave, released under CC BY-SA 3.0. Subtitles skew towards conversation, which is the point: this is the language people speak, not the language people publish.