How to say “amount” in 31 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.
“amount” in Greek: ποσό
It is commonest in English, where tell is the 97th most used word.
Amount in other languages, A to Z
- Arabic مزيد/ma.ziːd/ more, an extra amount or extent #616
- Bengali প্রচুর/pɾot͡ʃuɾ/ great in amount #712
- Bulgarian сума[ˈsumɐ] sum, amount #2,117
- Czech množství[ˈmnoʃstviː] quantity, amount #1,814
- Danish anelse/ˈaːnəlsə/ a very small amount of something #1,696
- Dutch aantal/ˈaːn.tɑl/ countable amount #980
- English tell/tɛl/ To determine the number, amount, or value of #97
- Estonian vähem/ˈvæhem/ a small amount, a little #607
- Finnish verran/ˈʋerːɑn/ much, about, the ... amount #2,020
- Galician chisco/ˈt͡ʃisko̝/ a bit, a small amount #1,977
- Greek ποσό/poˈso/ amount, quantity, sum #2,334
- Hebrew שיעור/ʃiˈʔuʁ/ measure, amount #1,334
- Hindi ज़रा/zə.ɾɑː/ a little, a small amount of #1,812
- Hungarian rengeteg[ˈrɛŋɡɛtɛɡ] an enormous amount of, loads of, a great… #734
- Icelandic stund[ˈstʏnt] an undetermined amount of time, a while #490
- Indonesian biaya/biˈa.ja/ cost: amount of money that is required or used #1,143
- Korean 이상[ˈi(ː)sʰa̠ŋ] an amount more than #192
- Latvian skaits/ˈskaits/ amount, number, quantity #1,872
- Lithuanian kiekis[²ˈkʲiɛkʲɪs] quantity, amount #2,093
- Malay usia/ˈusiə/ The amount of time that some being has been… #1,328
- Malayalam പലിശ/pɐliʃɐ/ interest; the extra amount you have to pay… #1,578
- Norwegian tilgang/ˈtɪlˌɡɑŋ/ supply; An amount of something supplied #1,871
- Persian مقدار[meʁ.d̪ɒ́ːɹ] amount, quantity #568
- Polish ile/ˈi.lɛ/ denotes amount; how much, how many #220
- Russian уровень[ˈurəvʲɪnʲ] level, standard, amount #1,665
- Slovenian znesek/znéːsək/ quantity, amount od money #1,536
- Tagalog gaano/ɡaˈʔano/ how; what quantity or amount; how much #447
- Turkish kadar/kɑˈdɑɾ/ Equal in amount or quantity; as much as #21
- Ukrainian кількість[ˈkʲilʲkʲisʲtʲ] quantity, number, amount #1,962
- Urdu تعداد/t̪ɑː.d̪ɑːd̪/ quantity, amount, number #798
- Vietnamese lượng[lɨəŋ˧˨ʔ] quantity; amount #586
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), 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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