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!).

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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