How to say “according” in 37 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.
According in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian sipas/siˈpas/ according to #515
- Arabic حسب/ħasaba/ according to, per, by #621
- Armenian ըստ/əst/ according to #505
- Basque arabera/aɾabeɾa/ according to, per #409
- Bengali অনুযায়ী/onud͡ʒai̯/ according to #1,831
- Bulgarian според[spoˈrɛt] according to #409
- Catalan segons[səˈɣons] according to #510
- Chinese 按照/ˀän⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/ according to; in accordance with; in light… #724
- Czech podle[ˈpodlɛ] according to #305
- Danish ifølge/iføljə/ according to #1,072
- Dutch volgens/ˈvɔl.ɣə(n)s/ according to #338
- English normal/ˈnoɹ.məl/ According to norms or rules or to a regular… #851
- Esperanto laŭ/lau̯/ according to, in accordance with, conformably… #142
- Estonian järgi/ˈjærɡ̊i/ according to #341
- French selon/sə.lɔ̃/ according to; whichever applies; depending on #871
- German laut/laʊ̯t/ according to #764
- Greek σύμφωνα/ˈsimfoˌna/ accordingly, in accordance with, according to #886
- Hebrew כפי/kfi/ according to #360
- Hungarian szerint[ˈsɛrint] according to #172
- Icelandic samkvæmt[ˈsam.kʰvaim̥t] according to #637
- Indonesian menurut/məˈnurut/ according to #684
- Italian secondo/seˈkon.do/ according to, as per, per #317
- Lithuanian pagal[pɐˈɡɐ̌ɫ] according to, by #319
- Macedonian според[ˈspɔɾɛt] according to, based on #436
- Malayalam പ്രകാരം/prɐɡaːɾɐm/ according to #398
- Norwegian ifølge/ɪˈfœlɡə/ according to #1,146
- Persian طبق[t̪ʰebɢ̥] according to, based on #688
- Polish według/ˈvɛ.dwuk/ according to #751
- Romanian potrivit/po.triˈvit/ according to #822
- Russian согласно[sɐˈɡɫasnə] according to, as to #1,663
- Slovak podľa/ˈpɔdʎa/ according to #208
- Spanish según/seˈɡun/ according to #972
- Swedish sant/ˈsant/ true; according to the truth #325
- Tagalog kuno/kuˈno/ so they say; according to someone; it is said #1,949
- Tamil படி/pɐɖiː/ according to, as per #401
- Turkish göre/ɟøˈɾe/ according to, per #150
- Vietnamese tuỳ[twi˨˩] according to #2,458
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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