Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: noodsaaklik
- Amharic: አስፈላጊ ነው
- Arabic: ضروري
- Azerbaijani: vacibdir
- Bashkir: мөһим
- Belarusian: важна
- Bulgarian: важно
- Bengali: অপরিহার্য
- Bosnian: neophodno
- Catalan: imprescindible
- Cebuano: importante
- Czech: základní
- Welsh: hanfodol
- Danish: vigtigt
- German: wesentliche
- Greek: απαραίτητη
- Esperanto: havenda
- Spanish: esencial
- Estonian: oluline
- Basque: ezinbestekoa
- Persian: ضروری
- Finnish: tärkeää
- French: essentiel
- Irish: riachtanach
- Scottish Gaelic: riatanach
- Galician: esencial
- Gujarati: જરૂરી
- Hebrew: חיוני
- Hindi: आवश्यक
- Croatian: važno
- Haitian: esansyèl
- Hungarian: alapvető
- Armenian: կարեւոր է
- Indonesian: penting
- Icelandic: nauðsynleg
- Italian: essenziale
- Japanese: 必須
- Javanese: penting
- Georgian: აუცილებელია,
- Kazakh: маңызды
- Khmer: ដែលសំខាន់
- Kannada: ಅಗತ್ಯ
- Korean: 필수
- Kyrgyz: маанилүү
- Latin: essentialis
- Luxembourgish: wesentlech
- Lao: ທີ່ສໍາຄັນ
- Lithuanian: svarbu
- Latvian: svarīgi
- Malagasy: ny zava-dehibe
- Mari: тӱҥ
- Maori: essential
- Macedonian: од суштинско значење
- Malayalam: അവശ്യ
- Mongolian: чухал
- Marathi: आवश्यक
- Hill Mari: кӱлешан
- Malay: yang penting
- Maltese: essenzjali
- Burmese: မရှိမဖြစ်လိုအပ်
- Nepali: आवश्यक
- Dutch: essentieel
- Norwegian: viktig
- Punjabi: ਜ਼ਰੂਰੀ
- Papiamento: esencial
- Polish: ważne
- Portuguese: essencial
- Romanian: esențial
- Russian: важно
- Sinhalese: අත්යවශ්ය
- Slovak: dôležité
- Slovenian: bistvene
- Albanian: thelbësore
- Serbian: важно
- Sundanese: penting pisan
- Swedish: viktigt
- Swahili: muhimu
- Tamil: அத்தியாவசிய
- Telugu: ముఖ్యమైన
- Tajik: муҳим аст
- Thai: สิ่งสำคัญมากของ
- Tagalog: mahalaga
- Turkish: temel
- Tatar: мөһим
- Udmurt: кулэ
- Ukrainian: важливо
- Urdu: ضروری
- Uzbek: muhim
- Vietnamese: điều cần thiết
- Xhosa: kubalulekile
- Yiddish: יקערדיק
- Chinese: 重要
Synonyms, close and similar words for essential
- necessary
- imperative
- required
- requisite
- needful
- necessity
- important
- crucial
- vital
- most important
- critical
- relevant
- necessitous
- paramount
- intrinsic
- innate
- inherent
- integral
- substantive
- basic
- fundamental
- native
- key
- major
- inalienable
- inseparable
- irreplaceable
- needed
- indispensable
- mandatory
- requirement
- underlying
- indigenous
- basal
- constitutive
- of the essence
- obligatory
- compulsory
- elemental
- rudimentary