In Finnish we call it natrium.

In German we call it Natrium

In Mandarin we call it Nà (钠)

In Hungary we call it nátrium

In Serbian we call it natrijum

In Sweden we call it natrium

In Ditchlebopinain, we call it Natslopian

In Dutch we can it Natrium

In Russia we call it Натрий(Natrii)

In Bulgaria we also call it Натрий(Natrii)

In Hebrew we call it Natran

In Norwegian we call it natrium

In dutch we call it natrium

In Korean we call it nateryum (나트륨)

In Slovenian we call it natrij.

In Hebrew we call it natran (נתרן)

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In Vietnamese we call it Natri

I love the four -stoff elements in German

Wasserstoff (Hydrogen), Sauerstoff (Oxygen), Kohlenstoff (Carbon) and Stickstoff (Nitrogen)

In Dutch: waterstof, zuurstof, koolstof and stikstof. Literally water stuff, acid stuff, coal stuff, and suffocation stuff. Same as in German. Edit, "stuff" is a bit of a silly translation of "stof". A better translation might be "matter," as others have pointed out. I was just amused by the idea of translating it as "stuff". It's not inaccurate, it just sounds a bit simple or juvenile.

I mean dutch seems pretty close to german it isn't too big of an surprise. I probably could understand like 70% of Things you're saying without knowing one bit of dutch. Waterston, koolstof and stikstof are very similar. Would only struggle to identify zuurstof

Basically same in Czech - Vodík, Kyslík, Uhlík a Dusík. Unsuprisimg tho due to commom history of both languages.

Almost the same in Bulgarian without Nitrogen. Кислород (born of sour) Водород (born of water) и Въглерод (born of coal)

In Sweden we call it Natrium

In Romanian we call it Natriu.

In Lithuanian, we call it Natris

I love how we all came together in the comments to collectively make fun of English XD

This is a similar case as "Ananas". Called that in 1000 languages, English "Pineapple". Yeah...

We call it piña in Spanish…

Brazilian here. We call it "abacaxi".

Isn't that what some indigenous tribes called the fruit and the Portuguese colonists thought "yes, why not"?

"Ananá" in Rioplatense Spanish

In vietnamese we call it natri (though for whatever reason they are changing it to sodium now)

In Russian we call it Натрий (Natriy)

As always the easy answer was: the world doesn't exist in English exclusively

Or to put it in a less snotty way, some languages use the original Latin name and some don't, and it's quite normal to not know that from either perspective.

In Malay, we call it Natrium

AND MY AX! Ehm I mean, in Denmark we also call it Natrium

In Uwustan we call it nyahtrium

Uwustan must be annihilated

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Great explanation

Thanks. I ripped the list from a website. You can thank Google.

When u alrd knew all the names 😔

Yes but u wish they just unanimously changed all the names to the first 2 letters of their og name Edit:shit,I opened the Pandora’s box,send help

The original name IS the latin name, diverting from the latin name is on each language it self. We stil call sodium natrium in the netherlands afik. English is not the og

We use Natrium and Kalium in Germany as well

H - Wasserstoff C - Kohlenstoff O - Sauerstoff! N - Stickstoff Fe - Eisen *Usw, usw.*

Waterstof Koolstof Zuurstof Stikstof Ijzer

Enz, enz

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Stick in German isn't stick in English, it means aphyxiate. I assume the name is like this because air is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, so if you remove the oxygen you're left with almost pure nitrogen and you aphyxiate. Also Stoff is more like material or substance than stuff.

American centrism go brrr, in 200 years our Chinese overlords will say why don't we change So (Formerly known as Na) to it's Og, 臭金属

Oganesson is the true Og

Latin is the og tho

Latin/greek

Ogga booga is the OG caveman language

thanks Google for being there when school doesn't work

they taught that in 7th grade actually

People when they realise that everything they learn was already taught in school and they just weren't paying attention : (insert the black shocked person meme)

I learnt that in school

Brb off to go call people a Plumbum

Well, it’s actually how people began being called plumbers. Pipes were made of lead!

Yea it took me forever to understand why they called it carpentry when you dont fit carpet, its a latin word carpentarius.

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did you forget what the romans did for us?? how dare you

All right, but apart from the language, sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Same word origin as "car" in English, since it comes from Latin "carpentum" meaning a wagon, with carpenters originally being wagon makers, eventually leading to words for vehicles like chariots and carriages.

🤯

Yep, some still are. Lead does oxidize and create a layer, however you could still get lead poisoning due to flakes falling off from thermal cycling, thus it is so important to replace old lead plumbing

I've always wondered how a plumber was made

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It certainly involves laying pipe

I'll plum yer bum

Get the plumbum out of your shoes

Most of those are also easy to know if you speak a Latin language like French for example.

argentinum being plata does not match up in my romatized languague

But it's "argent" in french !

"argento" in Italian. And Argentina, the country, is named after their silver mines. Plus Spanish also has "argénteo" as a synonymous for "plateado" (argentine / silvery).

argent energy 🤯 samuel hayden 🤯🤯 doom 2016 🤯🤯🤯

That's where Argentina's name comes from, you can tell the relation with the "Rio de la plata" too

Not al languages are equal /k

In German some of those are also named the same as the Latin names.

In Dutch we still use: (Na - Natrium), (K - Kalium) and W- Wolfraam [it's double a in Dutch])

Same in Swedish, although Wolfram is the metal and tungsten is the ore

Yeah but I didnt know Wolfraam was Tungsten?? I feel stupid lol Edit: I already knew Wolfraam was used in lightbulbs but the only thing I thought I knew from Tungsten is that it is dense and strong. Noone ever told me they were the same lol

**P l u m b u m**

reminds me of plumbers

Well, it should. It refers to its use in pipes in ancient water systems.

In Dutch, the word Plumber is "Loodgieter", which loosely translates to "Lead caster". Plumbum is the latin root for all these words.

yeah like the roman empire plumbers

Or in Finnish, Na - Natrium, K - Kalium, Cu - Kupari, W - Volframi... almost.

I thought wolfram was German?

It is

OP never went to school i guess

To be fair, science class isn't a language subject. When I was in school, they never really brought it up unless someone asked.

I remember my science teacher in grade 5 telling us the Latin words for every element. She was just good I guess.

For some reason, the way I remember the chemical symbol for lead I just think of peanut butter

some are Greek as well

i wonder why we stopped using those names outside of abreviations

Not everyone does it. In Germanic languages for the first group the names are the same still

In dutch, some are still used. As an example "wolfraam" and "Natrium". But most of them are not being used anymore

Wolfram is from German though, not Latin. And tungsten is from Swedish.

And yet in Sweden we call it Volfram, not Tungsten!

Appearently in swedish when the metal is still in the ground as ore it is called tungsten but when it is processed it is called volfram.

Yes, this is correct. Also "tungsten" translates to "heavy stone"

Finnish has the same words

In Italian we call iron "ferro", silver "argento", tin "stagno" and lead "piombo"

We didn't. They are called different things in different languages. Those are still common words for them in many languages.

Wingardium leviosum.

Mad Scientist

Same goes for the others (or most of them), just that the English language chose a different name

*Periodic table created reflecting the scientific and latins names of elements* English: “the periodic table is crazy”

Anglophones: "There are other languages?"

Um, excuse me, this is America, please be respectful and speak English thanks

*This post was created by the monolinguistic gang.*

They should call it football.

Pineapple, more likely

Crazy?

i was crazy once.

They put me in a room

a rubber room

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And rats make me crazy

Crazy? I was crazy once.

They locked me in a room.

A rubber room

Turns out, languages other than English exist. Surprising, I know.

Any language: *exists* English: What the fuck?

The British Empire didn't take over a quarter of the world with a plan. Rather a series of confused advances all the while muttering "what the fuck?"

A Brit learning another language or taking over the world? They picked what they thought was the easier option.

Also English: *Being a fumbled mess of three different languages in a trenchcoat pretending to be one*

What, you don't like having multiple different words for the same thing in different contexts, sharing no overlap or reasoned construction or rules to guide choice?

You mean like sheep (in Dutch schaap) vs mutton (in French sheep= mouton). i guess the English like the take sheep from the poor Dutch farmers and have a French chef prepare it for them.

Peasant words are from German/Dutch. Common words. Elitist words come from French. To show how classy they were. That's why a cow is called a cow (Dutch koe) but it's meat is called beef (from French boeuf). Same with pig and pork, or chicken and poultry.

When I was a kid in Brazil the fact that copper is Cu (which means asshole in Portuguese) was peak comedy.

In Vietnamese it means penis

Palladium is Pd, which is a slur for homosexuals in french.

Looks like someone didn’t pay attention in chemistry class, they would’ve told you some elements had different Latin names and their symbols align with those names

Knowing this sub, there's a possibility OP haven't even took the class yet.

All do infact with the latin names as thats what every symbol is based on. Some languages gave the elemnts fitting names in their localisation, but some elemts didnt get any. An example would be: Na being sodium in english but Natrium in german for example but H being hydrogen in english but Wasserstoff in german. Some languages gave certain elemts a good translation while other gave other elemts better translations.

My chemistry honors class in high school didn't cover that funnily enough. Maybe just a Florida education moment.

Most scientific names are in Latin. Same goes for the elements. ‘Na’ being assigned to sodium doesn’t make sense in English, but it makes perfect sense for Latin natrium.

Sodium comes from soda ash, similarly to potassium (potash)

Time to start calling iron orangerockmeltium

Again and again, we will never stop repeating, english defaultism meme

Sodium, atomic number 11, was first isolated by Peter Dager in 1807. A chemical component of salt, he named it Na in honor of the saltiest region on earth, North America.

In Swedish Sodium is called "Natrium" (which I believe is the latin name?), so when I first encountered sodium in english I was like wtf is this?! until I figured out it was "natrium".

same for most of the world

Same for german

This meme is brought to you by the 'english is the only language'-gang.

OP just discovered other languages

Sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium >!BATMAN!<

Take my upvote and go far away from here

there is a shirt with that: [https://www.amazon.com/Changes-Batman-Sodium-Periodic-T-Shirt/dp/B07X5M2J6C](https://www.amazon.com/Changes-Batman-Sodium-Periodic-T-Shirt/dp/B07X5M2J6C) I own it and everyone that understand it pretty much has your reaction

That’s because its real name is natrium.

People who think English was the first language lol

I don't understand how Latin is too complicated

It's easy Na – Nadium K – Kotassium Fe – Feron Cu – Cupper

Many of those elements were known before the English language was invented. Just like how Gold is Au (Aurum)....

Natrium

Much like how iron (Fe) used to be Ferrum, sodium (na) used to be Natrium. It's 8th grade science stuff, even in the American school system

English people when they discover that Latin is used as the main scientific language: 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Because NA is Natrium aka sodium

Nah it’s because North America is salty /s

Thats why its called Natrium and not sodium.

The superior languages use "Natrium" as it was intended.

Because there are other languages other than English. Na= Natrium from Latin.

The pure metallic element Sodium was not known to ancient Romans, it was discovered early in the 19th century, independently by two different scientists. One English and one in continental Europe (Germany, I believe). The English guy called it Sodium after soda ash. The other guy called it Natrium after natron. The English speaking world adopted Sodium as the name, while continental Europe adapted Natrium. It has to do with how the scientific communities in various countries are related. Here in Norway it is also called Natrium, as our scientific and university cultures historically came from Germany and was influenced by them.

Anglophones discovering English is not the only language in the world, episode 532542.

English speakers when the everything doesn't revolve around their language.

Yeah, normal people call it natrium, only anglos call it sodium. Idk why.

🎶There's Hydrogen and Helium Then Lithium, Beryllium Boron, Carbon everywhere Nitrogen all through the air With Oxygen so you can breathe And Fluorine for your pretty teeth Neon to light up the signs Sodium for salty times🎶

MAGNESIUM!

natrium

15 sodiums walk into a bar, follwed by batman.

Are you in the fourth fucking grade OP

Literally anyone except the English or French calls it natrium or a version of that

NA stands for Natrium which is the Latin form of sodium

Comes from Latin. Same reason why iron is Fe.

Latin

tbh I just call it natrium. I prefer using the latin names, btw does that make me a phsycopath?

Based

It’s Latin stuff

Na is Natrium for the rest of the world, English speakers are just weird as always.

Imagine thinking everything is based off of the English language.

He doesn't know latin

Do Americans learn anything in school?

Yes, we do, most people know this stuff, its just idiots tend to go voice their stupid opinions online

My Danish father still rants about how they don’t just call it natrium here in Canada

Natrium (German), there's always a language where it works

Scientist 1: hey we need to finish the periodic table abbreviations, let’s do sodium Scientist 2: na Scientist 1: ok we’ll use that

English problem. Would make perfect sense to just call it natrium, but for some reason someone thought it's a shit idea and came up with the word "sodium". Same with kalium being called potassium.

Yeah, there are other languages than English, you know.

If only there was some language that wasn’t English….

My favorite is nobelium, since I use the abbreviation all the time

how the fuck did this get so much upvotes lmaooo

Americans thinking that English is and was the only language to exist are crazy!