How to say “accept” in 35 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- aceptar/aθebˈtaɾ/ Spanish
- تقبل/taqabbala/ Arabic
- 接受/t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵ ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/ Chinese
- मानना/mɑːn.nɑː/ Hindi
- δέχομαι/ˈðe.xo.me/ Greek
- মানা/mana/ Bengali
“accept” in Spanish: aceptar · French: accepter · German: akzeptieren · Italian: accettare · Portuguese: aceitar · Chinese: 接受 · Arabic: تقبل · Hindi: मानना
It is commonest in Chinese, where 接受 is the 124th most used word.
Accept in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans aanvaar/ɑːnˈfɑːr/ to accept #319
- Albanian pranoj/pɾanɔj/ to accept #644
- Arabic تقبل/taqabbala/ to accept #1,085
- Basque hartu/artu/ to take, receive, accept #56
- Bengali মানা/mana/ to accept, to admit #952
- Bosnian prihvatiti/prǐxʋatiti/ to accept #1,435
- Catalan acceptar[ək.səpˈta] to accept #1,352
- Chinese 接受/t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵ ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/ to accept; to receive; to take #124
- Croatian prihvatiti/prǐxʋatiti/ to accept #1,174
- Czech přijmout[ˈpr̝̊ɪjmou̯t] to accept #1,709
- Danish modtaget/ˈmoðˌtaːˀəð/ to receive, get, accept #1,315
- Dutch accepteren/ɑk.sɛpˈteːrə(n)/ to accept #1,938
- English believe/bɪˈliv/ To accept as true, particularly without… #201
- Esperanto akcepti/akˈt͡septi/ to accept #1,031
- Finnish hyväksy/ˈhyvæksy/ to accept, approve of, agree with #2,497
- French accepter/ak.sɛp.te/ to accept #1,343
- Galician aceptar/aθɛpˈtaɾ/ to accept #1,383
- German akzeptieren/ˌakt͡sɛpˈtiːʁən/ to accept, to approve, to take, to agree to #2,227
- Greek δέχομαι/ˈðe.xo.me/ to accept, receive #1,978
- Hindi मानना/mɑːn.nɑː/ to accept, agree #860
- Italian accettare/at.t͡ʃetˈta.re/ to accept, to admit #1,588
- Latvian atvaino/ˈatʋaiːnuo/ to accept someone's apology, to excuse, to… #350
- Lithuanian priimti[pʲr̺ʲɪˈɪmʲt̪ʲɪ] to receive, to accept #796
- Macedonian прифати[ˈprifati] to accept #1,091
- Malay menerima/mənəˈrima/ to receive, to accept #481
- Polish przyjęcie/pʂɘˈjɛɲ.t͡ɕɛ/ to receive, to accept #1,285
- Portuguese aceitar/a.sejˈta(ʁ)/ to accept #1,107
- Romanian accepta/ak.t͡ʃepˈta/ to accept #1,496
- Serbian prihvatiti/prǐxʋatiti/ to accept #1,649
- Slovak akceptovať/akt͡septɔvac/ to accept #1,865
- Spanish aceptar/aθebˈtaɾ/ to accept, to take up, to take up on #1,664
- Swedish acceptera/aksɛpˈteːra/ to accept, to approve, to receive #1,797
- Tagalog tanggapin/taŋɡaˈpin/ to accept #562
- Ukrainian прийняти[prei̯ˈnʲate] to accept #1,337
- Vietnamese chấp[t͡ɕəp̚˧˦] to accept; to approve #735
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.