How to say “appear” in 36 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.
- aparece/apaˈɾeθe/ Spanish
- عرض/ʕa.ra.dˤa/ Arabic
- 像是/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂɻ̩⁵¹/ Chinese
- הופיע/(h)oˈfia/ Hebrew
- ეტყობა[e̞tʼχʼo̞bä] Georgian
- ներկայանալ/neɾkɑjɑˈnɑl/ Armenian
“appear” in Spanish: aparece · French: paraît · Portuguese: aparecer · Chinese: 像是 · Arabic: عرض
It is commonest in Chinese, where 像是 is the 159th most used word.
Appear in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans opdaag/ˈɔp.dɑːχ/ to show up, to appear #2,254
- Albanian duket/dukɛt/ to seem, appear, look #98
- Arabic عرض/ʕa.ra.dˤa/ to appear #395
- Armenian ներկայանալ/neɾkɑjɑˈnɑl/ to appear, to come forward, to present… #745
- Basque agertu/aɡertu/ to appear, become visible #408
- Bosnian pojavio/ˈpojɐˌvɪo/ to appear, emerge #1,276
- Catalan aparèixer[ə.pəˈɾɛ.ʃə] to appear #1,825
- Chinese 像是/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂɻ̩⁵¹/ to seem as if; to appear #159
- Croatian pojavio/ˈpojɐˌvɪo/ to appear, emerge #1,296
- Czech vypadá[ˈvɪpadaː] to appear, look like, seem #222
- Dutch lijkt/ˈlɛɪkt/ to seem, appear #248
- English seems/siːmz/ To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived… #499
- Esperanto aspektas/asˈpektas/ to appear; to look like #283
- French paraît/pa.ʁɛ/ to appear #1,206
- Galician parece/paˈɾeθe/ to seem, appear #228
- Georgian ეტყობა[e̞tʼχʼo̞bä] to appear, to seem #1,387
- Greek φαίνεται/ˈfeneˌte/ to seem, appear #184
- Hebrew הופיע/(h)oˈfia/ to appear #1,455
- Hindi लगता/ləɡ.t̪ɑː/ to seem, appear #63
- Icelandic birtast[ˈpɪr̥tast] to appear, to show up, to reveal oneself #1,704
- Italian sembra/ˈsem.bra/ to seem, to look, to appear #174
- Lithuanian pasirodyti[pɐsʲɪ¹ˈroːdʲiːtʲɪ] to appear #1,006
- Macedonian изгледа[ˈizɡlɛda] to look, appear, seem #122
- Malay kelihatan/kəliˈhatan/ to look; to appear; to seem #330
- Norwegian synes/ˈsyːˌneːs/ to appear, seem #362
- Persian نما/næmɒː/ to show, to cause to appear, to exhibit #2,280
- Polish wygląda/vɘˈɡlɔn.da/ to look, to look like, to appear #191
- Portuguese aparecer/a.pa.ɾeˈse(ʁ)/ to appear #1,117
- Romanian apărut/ˌapəˈɾut/ to appear, show up, turn up, emerge #959
- Russian выглядеть[ˈvɨɡlʲɪdʲɪtʲ] to look, to appear, to seem #1,759
- Serbian pojavio/ˈpojɐˌvɪo/ to appear, emerge #1,245
- Spanish aparece/apaˈɾeθe/ to appear, to turn up, to pop up, to come up #2,261
- Tagalog magpakita/maɡpaˈkita/ to reveal; to show up; to appear to someone #1,307
- Telugu కనిపిస్తుంది/ˈkaniˌpistundi/ to seem, appear, be seen, be visible, come or… #182
- Urdu لگے/lə.ɡeː/ to seem, to appear #542
- Vietnamese dường[zɨəŋ˨˩] to seem; to appear #1,350
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 Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.