How to say “appearance” 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.
- 樣子/jɑŋ⁵¹ d͡z̥ɹ̩¹/ Chinese
- εμφάνιση/eɱˈfa.ni.si/ Greek
- երևում/jeɾeˈvum/ Armenian
- বেশ/beʃ/ Bengali
- вигляд[ˈʋɪɦlʲɐd] Ukrainian
- صورت/suː.ɾət̪/ Urdu
“appearance” in Portuguese: aspecto · Chinese: 樣子 · Greek: εμφάνιση
It is commonest in Bengali, where বেশ is the 200th most used word.
Appearance in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian pamje/pamjɛ/ appearance, sight, view #858
- Armenian երևում/jeɾeˈvum/ appearance, emergence #406
- Basque itxura/it͡ʃuɾa/ appearance, shape #221
- Bengali বেশ/beʃ/ #200
- Bosnian lik/lîːk/ form, shape, figure, appearance #1,115
- Bulgarian вид[vit] look, appearance #574
- Catalan aspecte/əsˈpektə/ look, appearance #1,535
- Chinese 樣子/jɑŋ⁵¹ d͡z̥ɹ̩¹/ appearance; shape #1,320
- Croatian lik/lîːk/ form, shape, figure, appearance #1,266
- English apparently/əˈpæɹəntli/ Seemingly; in appearance #1,293
- Esperanto aspekto/asˈpekto/ appearance, aspect #2,110
- Estonian välimus/ˈvælimus/ appearance, look #2,138
- Galician aspecto/asˈpekto/ appearance, look #1,429
- German aussehen/ˈaʊ̯sˌzeː.ən/ look, appearance #1,138
- Greek εμφάνιση/eɱˈfa.ni.si/ #2,435
- Hebrew מראה/maʁˈ(ʔ)e/ sight, appearance #822
- Hindi रूप/ɾuːp/ outward appearance, form, figure, shape,… #100
- Icelandic útlit[ˈuːt.lɪːt] appearance, look #1,859
- Indonesian adegan[adəˈɡan] the appearance of a new character or a change… #1,947
- Korean 꼴[k͈o̞ɭ] the shape or appearance of a thing #1,168
- Lithuanian išvaizda[ˈɪʃʋɐɪzdɐ] appearance, look, apparition #2,346
- Macedonian изглед[ˈizɡlɛt] appearance, looks #1,938
- Malay rupa/ˈrupa/ form, appearance #1,166
- Persian قیافه[qi.jɒː.fe] exterior appearance of a person; physiognomy #2,239
- Portuguese aspecto/asˈpɛk.tu/ appearance, look #1,910
- Russian виду[ˈvʲidʊ] look, looks, appearance, air #342
- Serbian lik/lîːk/ form, shape, figure, appearance #1,086
- Tagalog itsura/ʔiˈt͡ʃuɾa/ appearance; form; figure #467
- Ukrainian вигляд[ˈʋɪɦlʲɐd] appearance, look, aspect #1,261
- Urdu صورت/suː.ɾət̪/ #439
- Vietnamese vẻ[vɛ˧˩] look, appearance #295
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) 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.