How to say “age” in 42 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.
- edad/eˈdad/ Spanish
- 年代/ni̯ɛn³⁵ taɪ̯⁵¹/ Chinese
- उम्र/ʊm.ɾᵊ/ Hindi
- ηλικία/i.liˈci.a/ Greek
- גיל/ˈɡil/ Hebrew
- ওমর/omoɾ/ Bengali
“age” in Spanish: edad · French: âge · German: alte · Italian: età · Portuguese: idade · Chinese: 年代 · Hindi: उम्र · Greek: ηλικία
It is commonest in Albanian, where koha is the 214th most used word.
Age in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans leeftyd/ˈliəftɛɪt/ #1,465
- Albanian koha/kɔha/ #214
- Armenian հարսնացու/hɑɾsnɑˈt͡sʰu/ a girl of marriageable age #1,488
- Basque adin/adin/ #756
- Bengali ওমর/omoɾ/ age, life #1,039
- Bulgarian възраст[ˈvɤzrɐst] #1,134
- Catalan edat[əˈðat] #863
- Chinese 年代/ni̯ɛn³⁵ taɪ̯⁵¹/ age; era; period #675
- Czech dobu[ˈdobu] #547
- Danish alder/ˈalˀɐ/ #1,293
- Dutch leeftijd/ˈleːf.tɛi̯t/ #1,323
- Esperanto aĝo/ˈad͡ʒo/ #953
- Estonian east/eɑ̯st/ #2,320
- French âge/aʒ/ #723
- Galician idade/iˈdade/ #690
- Georgian ზეობა[ze̞o̞bä] heyday, golden age, renaissance,… #622
- German alte[ˈaltə] age, old age #587
- Greek ηλικία/i.liˈci.a/ #1,004
- Hebrew גיל/ˈɡil/ age, period #1,141
- Hindi उम्र/ʊm.ɾᵊ/ #851
- Hungarian évesen[ˈeːvɛʃɛn] at, at the age of, at age #2,383
- Icelandic öld[ˈœlt] #1,353
- Indonesian usia/uˈsia/ age, lifespan #1,226
- Italian età/eˈta/ #1,838
- Korean 나이[na̠i] age of a person or other living thing #758
- Latvian jaunu/ˈjaunu/ having relatively low age, young, new #509
- Macedonian возраст[ˈvɔzrast] #1,593
- Malay umur/ˈumur/ #804
- Malayalam വയസ്സ്/ʋɐjɐssɨ/ #489
- Norwegian alder/ˈɑldər/ #1,423
- Persian سن/sen/ #743
- Polish wieku/ˈvjɛ.ku/ #923
- Portuguese idade/iˈda.d͡ʒi/ #790
- Romanian perioadă[pe.riˈo̯a.də] period, age #1,316
- Slovenian starost/stàːrɔst/ old age #1,285
- Spanish edad/eˈdad/ #727
- Swedish ålder/ˈoːldɛr/ age; how old something or someone is #1,309
- Tagalog edad/ʔeˈdad/ #1,166
- Telugu పాత/paːt̪a/ of or pertaining to old age #104
- Turkish yaşında/jaʃɯnda/ -year-old, at the age of #566
- Urdu سن/sɪn/ #279
- Vietnamese tuổi[tuəj˧˩] #465
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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