How to say “address” in 44 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.
- адрес[ˈadrʲɪs] Russian
- 地址/ti⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂɻ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ Chinese
- पता/pə.t̪ɑː/ Hindi
- כתובת/ˈktovet/ Hebrew
- ঠিকানা/ʈʰikana/ Bengali
- முகவரி/mʊɡɐʋɐɾiː/ Tamil
“address” in German: adresse · Italian: indirizzo · Chinese: 地址 · Russian: адрес · Hindi: पता · Turkish: adres
It is commonest in Hindi, where पता is the 50th most used word.
Address in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans adres/aˈdrɛs/ address, direction #588
- Albanian adresa/adɾɛsa/ #1,863
- Armenian հարցում/hɑɾˈt͡sʰum/ inquiry, formal address, request #1,199
- Bengali ঠিকানা/ʈʰikana/ #793
- Bosnian adresa/adrěsa/ #1,975
- Bulgarian адрес[ɐˈdrɛs] #1,626
- Catalan adreça[əˈðɾe.sə] #1,567
- Chinese 地址/ti⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂɻ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ address; location #521
- Croatian adresa/adrěsa/ #1,980
- Czech adresu[ˈadrɛsu] #1,476
- Danish tale/tsʰaːlə/ speech, talk, address, discourse #149
- Dutch adres/aːˈdrɛs/ #1,052
- English daddy/ˈdædi/ Also used as a term of address: a father;… #611
- Esperanto adreso/aˈdreso/ #2,112
- Estonian aadress/ˈɑːd̥resʲː/ #1,292
- French madame/ma.dam/ a title or form of address for a woman,… #441
- Galician enderezo[endeˈɾeθʊ] #2,214
- Georgian დაი[d̥äi] used to address a female #1,487
- German adresse/aˈdɾɛsə/ #1,391
- Hebrew כתובת/ˈktovet/ address, postal address, e-mail address #1,502
- Hindi पता/pə.t̪ɑː/ #50
- Icelandic tala[ˈtʰaːla] a short address, a speech #78
- Italian indirizzo/in.diˈrit.t͡so/ #1,343
- Korean 성하[ˈsʰɘ(ː)ŋɦa̠] A term of respectful address for a pope #888
- Latvian adresi/ˈadræsi/ #2,116
- Lithuanian adresas[²ˈɑːdʲrʲɛsɐs] #1,540
- Macedonian адреса[ˈadrɛsa] #1,412
- Malay cik/ˈt͡ʃik/ A form of address to an unfamiliar man or… #311
- Malayalam എടാ/eɖaː/ a term of address to a male of same age or… #232
- Norwegian elskling/ˈɛlsklɪŋ/ Term of address for a love interest, darling,… #1,191
- Persian آدرس[ʔɒːd̪.ɹés] #1,103
- Polish adres/ˈa.drɛs/ #1,305
- Portuguese major/maˈʒɔʁ/ A term of address for someone #1,607
- Romanian adresa/aˈdresa/ to address #1,094
- Russian адрес[ˈadrʲɪs] #1,294
- Serbian adresa/adrěsa/ #2,020
- Slovak adresa/adresa/ #1,240
- Swedish adress/ˈadrɛs/ an address; direction or superscription of a… #1,756
- Tagalog ma/ma/ term of address for one's mother: mom; mum;… #449
- Tamil முகவரி/mʊɡɐʋɐɾiː/ address, superscription #695
- Telugu చిరునామా/t͡ɕiɾunaːmaː/ The superscription on a letter or address #760
- Turkish adres/ɑd(ɯ)ɾes/ #2,350
- Urdu پتہ/pət̪.ɑ(ː)/ #89
- Vietnamese hỡi[həːj˦ˀ˥] vocative particle, used for direct address #2,047
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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