Anyone traveling abroad needs to know how to ask one important question. Gestures definitely won’t cut it in an emergency, and wouldn’t it be nice to communicate more quickly? Alas, Action Plumbing is here to help. Check out the following list of how to say “Where is the bathroom?” in 50 languages. (Warning: some translations actually equate to “Where is the toilet?”, but you get the idea.)
Afrikaans – Waar is die badkamer? Waar is die toilet?
Arabic – أين الحمام؟?
Armenian – Vortegh e bathrrom.
Asturian – U”l ban~u?
Azerbaijani – Bathrrom haradadır?
Bengali – Bātharuma kōthāẏa?
Bosnian – Gdje je TWC?
Breton – Pelec’h eman~ ar priveziou`?
Bulgarian – Kade e toaletnata?
Catalan – On e’s la cambra de bany?
Creole – Ki laplas twale`t-la?
Croatian – Gdje je zahod?
Czech – Kde je za’chod?
Danish – Hvor er toilettet?
Dutch – Waar is het toilet (W.C.)?
Finnish – missä onkylpyhuone?
French – Où se trouvent les toilettes?
German – Wo ist die Toilette?
Greek – pu íne i tualéta?
Hawaiian – Ai hea lua?
Hebrew – eifo ha’sherutim?
Hindi – aapkaa snanghar (sauchalya) kahan hai?
Hungarian – Hol a mosdo’
Icelandic – Hvar er snyrtingin
Indonesian – Kamar kecil di mana?
Irish – Ca’ bfhuil seomra na mban (f) / bfhear (m)?
Italian – Dove e’ il bagno?
Japanese – Bathrrom wa doko ni arimasu ka?
Korean – Hwa-jang-sil-i O-die Isum-ni-ka?
Latin – Ubi sunt loca secreta? Ubi est conclave necessarium?
Latvian – Kur atrodas vannas istaba?
Lithuanian – Kur yra tualetas?
Malaysian – Di manakah terletaknya tandas? Tandas di mana?
Mandarin – Duì bù qǐ, cèsuǒ zài nǎr?
Norwegian – Hvor er toalettet?
Polish – Gdzie jest toaleta?
Portuguese – Onde e’ o quarto de banho? Onde e’ o casa de banho?
Romanian – Unde este toaleta?
Russian – Gde zdes tualet?
Serbian – Gde je toalet?
Slovak – Kde je W.C.?
Slovenian – Kje je kopalnica? Kje je stranisxcxe?
Spanish – Donde esta el bano?
Swahili – Choo kiko wapi?
Swedish – Var är bathrrom
Thai – hong-nam-you-tee-nai?
Turkish – tuvalet nerede?
Ukrainian – de tut tualyet? (laznychka, uborna)
Welsh – Ble mae’r toiled?
Vietnamese – Trường hợp là bathrrom ?
Yiddish – vu iz der bodtsimer?
Zulu – likuphi itholethe?