How to say “apartment” in 40 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.
- شقة/ʃaq.qa/ Arabic
- διαμέρισμα/ˌðiaˈmerisˌma/ Greek
- דירה/diˈʁa/ Hebrew
- ফ্ল্যাট/pʰle̯aʈ/ Bengali
- квартира[kʋɐrˈtɪrɐ] Ukrainian
“apartment” in French: appartement · Italian: appartamento · Arabic: شقة · Greek: διαμέρισμα
It is commonest in Slovak, where byt is the 465th most used word.
Apartment in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans woonstel/ˈvʊə̯n.stɛl/ An apartment #527
- Albanian apartament/apaɾtamɛnt/ #1,587
- Arabic شقة/ʃaq.qa/ apartment, flat #997
- Armenian բնակարան/bənɑkɑˈɾɑn/ flat, apartment #1,584
- Bengali ফ্ল্যাট/pʰle̯aʈ/ #1,952
- Bosnian stan/stâːn/ flat, apartment #657
- Bulgarian апартамент[ɐpɐrtɐˈmɛnt] flat, rooms, apartment, suite #1,225
- Chinese 房子/fɑŋ³⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩³/ house; home; apartment #105
- Croatian stan/stâːn/ flat, apartment #646
- Czech byt[ˈbɪt] apartment, flat #1,167
- Danish lejlighed[ˈlɑjliˌheðˀ] apartment, flat #900
- Dutch appartement/ɑˌpɑrtəˈmɛnt/ an apartment #1,233
- English bedroom/ˈbɛdˌɹum/ A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other… #1,930
- Esperanto apartamento/apartaˈmento/ apartment, flat #1,789
- Estonian korter/ˈkorter/ #1,398
- French appartement/a.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃/ apartment, flat #1,014
- Greek διαμέρισμα/ˌðiaˈmerisˌma/ apartment, flat #983
- Hebrew דירה/diˈʁa/ #1,094
- Icelandic herbergi[ˈhɛr.pɛrcɪ] room, apartment #452
- Indonesian apartemen/apartəˈmɛn/ #1,311
- Italian appartamento/ap.par.taˈmen.to/ apartment, flat #992
- Korean 아파트[a̠pʰa̠tʰɯ] apartment building, block of flats #1,039
- Latvian dzīvoklī/ˈdziːʋuokliː/ #1,884
- Lithuanian butas[ˈbʊtɐs] flat, apartment #1,325
- Macedonian стан[stan] flat, apartment #775
- Malay pangsapuri/ˌpaŋsaˈpuri/ apartment, flat: a self-contained housing… #2,163
- Norwegian leiligheten/ˈlæ͡ɪlɪˌheːtn̩/ a flat or apartment #1,153
- Persian آپارتمان[ʔɒː.pʰɒːɹ.t̪ʰe.mɒ́ːn] flat, apartment #1,023
- Polish mieszkania/mjɛʂˈka.ɲa/ apartment, flat #1,721
- Portuguese apartamento/a.paʁ.taˈmẽ.tu/ flat, apartment #940
- Romanian apartament/apartaˈment/ #1,262
- Serbian stan/stâːn/ flat, apartment #680
- Slovak byt/bit/ apartment, flat #465
- Slovenian apartma/apartmáː/ #1,298
- Spanish apartamento/apaɾtaˈmento/ flat, apartment #1,237
- Swedish lägenhet/²lɛːɡɛnheːt/ apartment, flat #1,126
- Tagalog apartment/ʔaˈpaɾtment/ #2,238
- Tamil அறை/ɐrɐɪ̯/ room, apartment, chamber, cell #344
- Telugu గది/ˈɡadi/ room, apartment, closet #248
- Ukrainian квартира[kʋɐrˈtɪrɐ] apartment, flat #1,921
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.