How to say “article” in 38 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.
- artículo/aɾˈtikulo/ Spanish
- ലേഖനം/leːk(ʰ)anam/ Malayalam
- مقاله[mæ.ʁɒː.lé] Persian
“article” in Spanish: artículo · Italian: articolo · Turkish: madde
It is commonest in Afrikaans, where artikel is the 803rd most used word.
Article in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans artikel/ɐrˈtikəl/ #803
- Albanian artikull/arˈtikuɫ/ #2,467
- Bengali চিজ/t͡ʃid͡ʒ/ thing, article #2,028
- Bosnian članak/t͡ʃlǎːnak/ #2,114
- Bulgarian статия[ˈstatijɐ] #2,340
- Catalan la/lə/ the; feminine singular definite article #4
- Chinese 文章/wən³⁵ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵⁵/ essay; composition; article #1,003
- Croatian članak/t͡ʃlǎːnak/ #1,918
- Czech článek[ˈt͡ʃlaːnɛk] #1,880
- Danish de/di/ plural definite article #22
- Dutch artikel/ɑrˈtikəl/ #2,141
- English shirt/ʃɜɹt/ An article of clothing that is worn on the… #1,583
- Esperanto vestaĵojn/vesˈtaʒoɪn/ garment, article of clothing, piece of… #1,633
- Estonian punkti/ˈpuŋkti/ #1,335
- French article/aʁ.tikl/ merchandise, sales article #1,679
- Galician o/o/ masculine singular definite article; the #3
- German dem/deːm/ nominative masculine singular definite… #50
- Greek ο/o̞/ the definite masculine singular article. the #11
- Hebrew כתבה/kataˈva/ A news article, a report #1,718
- Hindi कपड़े/kəp.ɽeː/ clothing; article of clothing #702
- Indonesian si/ˈsi/ definite article used before the names of… #284
- Italian articolo/arˈti.ko.lo/ #2,061
- Korean 물건[muɭɡʌ̹n] item, article, thing, stuff #673
- Malay yang[jaŋ] An article that denotes a noun with the… #2
- Malayalam ലേഖനം/leːk(ʰ)anam/ #1,171
- Norwegian de/diː/ definite article, equivalent to "the", used… #24
- Persian مقاله[mæ.ʁɒː.lé] #1,319
- Portuguese mais/ˈmajs/ preceded by the definitive article, used to… #28
- Romanian haine/ˈhaɪne/ garment, garb, article of clothing #1,173
- Serbian članak/t͡ʃlǎːnak/ #1,939
- Slovak predmet/predmet/ object, article #1,878
- Slovenian članek/t͡ʃláːnək/ #852
- Spanish artículo/aɾˈtikulo/ #2,330
- Tagalog artikulo/ʔaɾˈtikulo/ #2,023
- Tamil கட்டுரை/kɐʈːʊɾɐɪ̯/ essay, article #2,009
- Telugu వస్తువు/ˈʋastuʋu/ a thing, article, matter, substance #475
- Turkish madde/madːe/ #1,813
- Ukrainian товар[tɔˈʋar] commodity, article, product #2,247
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 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.