How to say “alone” in 43 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.
- وحيد/wa.ħiːd/ Arabic
- 一人/i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ ɻən³⁵/ Chinese
- अकेले/ə.keː.leː/ Hindi
- לבד/leˈvad/ Hebrew
- მარტო[mäɾtʼo̞] Georgian
- մենակ/meˈnɑk/ Armenian
“alone” in German: allein · Portuguese: sozinho · Chinese: 一人 · Arabic: وحيد · Hindi: अकेले
It is commonest in Albanian, where vetëm is the 47th most used word.
Alone in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian vetëm/ˈvetəm/ #47
- Arabic وحيد/wa.ħiːd/ #995
- Armenian մենակ/meˈnɑk/ #469
- Basque soil/s̺oi̯l/ alone, empty #1,069
- Bengali একাকী/ekaki/ #1,034
- Bosnian nasamo/nâsaːmo/ in private, alone, face-to-face #1,583
- Bulgarian сам[sam] alone, by oneself #189
- Catalan sola[ˈsɔ.lə] #520
- Chinese 一人/i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ ɻən³⁵/ by one person; alone #715
- Croatian nasamo/nâsaːmo/ in private, alone, face-to-face #1,605
- Czech sami[ˈsamɪ] alone, by oneself #827
- Esperanto sola/ˈsola/ lone, alone, only, sole #205
- Estonian üksinda/ˈyksind̥ɑ/ alone, by oneself #821
- Finnish yksin/ˈyksin/ alone, by oneself #293
- Galician soa/ˈsoa/ #410
- Georgian მარტო[mäɾtʼo̞] #167
- German allein/(ʔ)aˈlaɪn/ #312
- Greek μόνος/ˈmonos/ solitary, alone #274
- Hebrew לבד/leˈvad/ Alone, apart, not together, on one's own #274
- Hindi अकेले/ə.keː.leː/ alone, by oneself #481
- Hungarian egyedül[ˈɛɟɛdyl] alone, by oneself, on one's own #231
- Icelandic eitt[ˈeiht] #132
- Indonesian sendirian/səndiˈrian/ #427
- Italian solo/ˈso.lo/ only, just, but, alone, merely #39
- Korean 오직[o̞d͡ʑik̚] only, solely, alone, exclusively, but #517
- Lithuanian vieni[vʲiəˈn̪ʲɪ] one, only, sole, alone, single #592
- Macedonian сам[sam] alone, by oneself #237
- Malayalam ഒറ്റയ്ക്ക്/orrɐjkkɨ/ #300
- Norwegian alene/ɑˈleːnə/ #286
- Persian تنها[t̪ʰæn.hɒ́ː] #87
- Polish sam/ˈsam/ alone, by oneself, without company #141
- Portuguese sozinho/ˌsɔˈzĩ.ɲu/ alone; by oneself; on one's own #540
- Russian оставить[ɐˈstavʲɪtʲ] to leave, to leave alone #763
- Serbian nasamo/nâsaːmo/ in private, alone, face-to-face #1,551
- Slovenian sam/sáːm/ alone, sole #112
- Spanish solamente/ˌsolaˈmente/ only, alone, merely #1,456
- Swedish ensam/²ɛnːsamː/ #355
- Tagalog hayaan/haˈjaʔan/ to be left alone #235
- Telugu ఒంటరి/ˈonʈari/ alone, single #1,573
- Turkish bırak/bɯˈɾak/ let alone #204
- Ukrainian наодинці[nɐɔˈdɪnʲt͡sʲi] alone, privately, tête-à-tête #2,170
- Urdu اکیلے/ə.keː.leː/ alone, by oneself #361
- Vietnamese kệ[ke˧˨ʔ] to leave alone; to let be #1,317
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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