Day for Night Trivia Quiz

Answer:

The French word for day is "jour"

The Hungarian word for day is "nap." This makes "nap" a false friend as it does not mean nap like it looks like it might mean.

"Dia" is day in Spanish and Portuguese. The words are pronounced a bit differently depending on the language that is being spoken. Spanish sounds more like "dee-ah", whereas Portuguese sounds more like "jee-ah".

In Danish, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, and Swedish the word day is "dag."

In Belarusian and Polish, the word day is "dzien".

In Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, and Ukrainian, the word day is "den".

In Estonian, the word day is "paeval".

In Finnish, the word day is "paiva".

In German, the word for day is "Tag". The word "Tag" is capitalized because the word day is a noun. In German all nouns are capitalized.

In Greek, the word for day is "imera".

In Irish the word for day is "la".

The Italian word for day is "giorno".

In Romanian, the word for day is "zi".

In Scottish Gaelic, the word for day is "latha".

The Welsh word for day is "dydd".

The wrong words are the words for "night" which are "nuit" (French), "ejszaka" (Hungarian), "noche" (Spanish), "Nacht" (German), and "yo" (Finnish).