How to say “arrive” in 39 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.
- llegar/ʝeˈɡaɾ/ Spanish
- पहुँचने/pə.ɦʊ̃t͡ʃ.neː/ Hindi
- φτάσει/ˈftasi/ Greek
- הגיע/(h)iˈɡia/ Hebrew
- পৌঁছানো/poũt͡ʃʰano/ Bengali
- прийти[prei̯ˈtɪ] Ukrainian
“arrive” in Spanish: llegar · French: arrive · Italian: arrivato · Portuguese: chegar · Hindi: पहुँचने · Turkish: vardı · Greek: φτάσει
It is commonest in Albanian, where vjen is the 84th most used word.
Arrive in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans aankom/ˈɑːŋkɔm/ #724
- Albanian vjen/vjɛn/ to arrive #84
- Armenian կանխել/kɑnˈχel/ to arrive beforehand, to anticipate #1,017
- Basque iritsi/iɾit͡s̺i/ to arrive, to reach #175
- Bengali পৌঁছানো/poũt͡ʃʰano/ to arrive #2,160
- Bosnian došao/ˈdoʃɐo/ to come, arrive #268
- Bulgarian пристигна[priˈstiɡnɐ] to arrive #1,468
- Catalan arribar[ə.riˈβa] to arrive #308
- Chinese 得出/tɤ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵/ to reach; to obtain; to arrive at #1,548
- Croatian došao/ˈdoʃɐo/ to come, arrive #243
- Czech došlo[ˈdoʃlo] to arrive, to come #900
- Dutch bereikt/bəˈrɛɪkt/ to arrive at, to reach, to get to #1,850
- Esperanto alvenis/alˈvenis/ to arrive #380
- Finnish pääse/ˈpæːse/ to get to, reach, arrive at/in #612
- French arrive/a.ʁiv/ to arrive #207
- Galician chegar/t͡ʃeˈɡaɾ/ to arrive #340
- German komm/kɔm/ to come; to arrive #115
- Greek φτάσει/ˈftasi/ to arrive #1,075
- Hebrew הגיע/(h)iˈɡia/ to arrive, to get, to reach #262
- Hindi पहुँचने/pə.ɦʊ̃t͡ʃ.neː/ to arrive, reach #1,273
- Hungarian ért[ˈeːrt] to reach, arrive, get somewhere #757
- Italian arrivato/ar.riˈva.to/ to arrive, to come, to reach #655
- Latvian tika/ˈtika/ to arrive at #234
- Lithuanian ateik[ɐ²ˈtʲɛɪˑk] to come, to arrive #217
- Macedonian дојде[ˈdɔjdɛ] to come, arrive #138
- Persian آمد[ʔɒː.mæd̪̥] to come, to arrive #931
- Polish przyszedł/ˈpʂɘ.ʂɛdw/ to come, to arrive #864
- Portuguese chegar/ʃeˈɡa(ʁ)/ to arrive; to reach #303
- Russian прийти[prʲɪjˈtʲi] to come, to arrive #1,048
- Serbian došao/ˈdoʃɐo/ to come, arrive #244
- Slovak prišiel/priʃɪ̯el/ to arrive, to come #171
- Slovenian pristati/pristàːti/ to land, to arrive at the shore #1,458
- Spanish llegar/ʝeˈɡaɾ/ to arrive, get #399
- Tagalog dumating/dumaˈtiŋ/ to arrive; to come; to reach #208
- Tamil வா/ʋɑː/ to come, arrive #76
- Telugu వచ్చింది/ˈʋaccindi/ to come, arrive #28
- Turkish vardı/vaɾˈdɯ/ to arrive; to reach a location #144
- Ukrainian прийти[prei̯ˈtɪ] to arrive, to come #676
- Urdu آیا/ɑː.jɑː/ to come, to arrive #169
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) 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.