How to say “angry” 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.
- bravo/ˈbɾabo/ Spanish
- θυμωμένος/θi.moˈme.nos/ Greek
- გაბრაზებული[ɡ̊äbɾäze̞buli] Georgian
- রেগে/reɡe/ Bengali
- عصبانی[ʔæ.sæ.bɒː.niː] Persian
“angry” in Spanish: bravo · Portuguese: zangado · Turkish: sinirli · Greek: θυμωμένος
It is commonest in Afrikaans, where kwaad is the 364th most used word.
Angry in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans kwaad/ˈkwɑːt/ #364
- Arabic حرب/ħa.ri.ba/ to be enraged, to be furious, to be angry #632
- Armenian բարկացած/bɑɾkɑˈt͡sʰɑt͡s/ to get angry #1,561
- Basque haserretu/as̺eretu/ to rage, get angry #523
- Bengali রেগে/reɡe/ #859
- Bosnian ljut/ʎûːt/ #1,116
- Bulgarian ядосан[jɐˈdɔsɐn] #1,190
- Chinese 生氣/ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/ to be angry; to get upset; to be mad #2,038
- Croatian ljut/ʎûːt/ #1,042
- Czech naštvaný[ˈnaʃtvaniː] upset, mad, angry #1,423
- Danish vred/vreːˀð/ #689
- Dutch kwaad/kʋaːt/ angry, furious #605
- English upset/ʌpˈsɛt/ Angry, distressed, or unhappy #1,008
- Esperanto koleras/koˈleras/ to be angry #1,243
- Estonian vihane/ˈvihɑne/ #725
- Finnish vihainen/ˈʋihɑi̯nen/ #770
- Georgian გაბრაზებული[ɡ̊äbɾäze̞buli] angry, rambunctious, shirty, angered,… #762
- Greek θυμωμένος/θi.moˈme.nos/ angry, irate, disgruntled #1,687
- Hungarian dühös[ˈdyɦøʃ] furious, infuriated, angry #1,016
- Icelandic reiður[ˈreiːðʏr] angry, wroth #2,348
- Indonesian marah/ˈmarah/ angry; mad; upset #396
- Latvian dusmīgs/ˈdusmiːɡs/ angry, furious, irate, wrathful #2,236
- Lithuanian piktas[ˈpʲɪkt̪ɐs̪] #1,178
- Macedonian лут[ɫut] angry, mad #1,026
- Malay marah/ˈmarah/ angry; mad #395
- Norwegian sint/ˈsɪnt/ angry, cross, mad #579
- Persian عصبانی[ʔæ.sæ.bɒː.niː] #1,213
- Portuguese zangado/zɐ̃ˈɡa.du/ #1,860
- Romanian supărat/ˌsupəˈɾat/ #894
- Serbian ljut/ʎûːt/ #1,097
- Slovenian jezen/jèːzən/ #410
- Spanish bravo/ˈbɾabo/ angry, furious #2,245
- Swedish arg/arj/ angry, mad #572
- Tagalog magalit/maˈɡalit/ to get angry #835
- Turkish sinirli/si.niɾˈli/ #2,272
- Urdu ناراض/nɑː.ɾɑːz/ upset, angry #1,322
- Vietnamese giận[zən˧˨ʔ] to be angry #802
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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