How to say “carry” in 42 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.
- носить[nɐˈsʲitʲ] Russian
- حمل/ħa.ma.la/ Arabic
- տար/tɑɾ/ Armenian
“carry” in French: porte · German: tragen · Russian: носить · Arabic: حمل
It is commonest in Malay, where bawa is the 166th most used word.
Carry in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans dra/ˈdrɑː/ to carry #279
- Albanian çoj/t͡ʃɔj/ to awaken, send, carry on, dispatch, stir up #768
- Arabic حمل/ħa.ma.la/ to carry, to transport, to convey #1,282
- Armenian տար/tɑɾ/ to carry; to carry away or off, to take away;… #435
- Basque eraman/eɾaman/ to take, carry #124
- Bosnian nosi/ˈnosɪ/ to carry, bring #698
- Bulgarian правя[ˈpravʲɐ] to do, to perform, to carry out #199
- Catalan porta[ˈpɔr.tə] to carry #207
- Chinese 進行/t͡ɕin⁵¹ ɕiŋ³⁵/ to proceed with; to carry out; to conduct; to… #1,248
- Croatian nosi/ˈnosɪ/ to carry, bring #782
- Danish bar/ˈbaːˀr/ to carry #1,050
- Dutch brengen/ˈbrɛŋə(n)/ to bring, to carry #372
- English wear/wɛ(ə)ɹ/ To carry or have equipped on or about one's… #779
- Esperanto portas/ˈportas/ to carry #724
- Estonian kandma/ˈkɑnd̥mɑ/ to carry #1,252
- Finnish tehdä/ˈtehdæˣ/ to do, perform, execute, carry out #81
- French porte/pɔʁt/ to carry #284
- Galician levar/leˈbaɾ/ to take, to carry, to transport #386
- German tragen/ˈtʁaːɡn̩/ to carry, to bear #808
- Greek φέρω/ˈfe.ɾo/ to bear, carry #573
- Hungarian hoztam[ˈhostɒm] to bring, to carry #782
- Icelandic bera[ˈpɛːra] to carry, to bear #522
- Indonesian bawa/ˈbawa/ to carry, bring, take #264
- Lithuanian vykdyti[¹ˈʋʲiːɡdʲiːtʲɪ] to execute, implement, carry out #1,761
- Macedonian носи[ˈnɔsi] to carry, bear #431
- Malay bawa/ˈbawə/ to carry #166
- Persian برنده[bæ.ɹæn̪.d̪é] to bear; to carry; to take #470
- Polish wynoś/ˈvɘ.nɔɕ/ to carry out, to take out #1,672
- Portuguese cumprir/kũˈpɾi(ʁ)/ to carry out, to do, to perform #2,221
- Romanian duc/ˈduk/ to carry, lead, take #218
- Russian носить[nɐˈsʲitʲ] to carry, to bear #2,162
- Serbian nosi/ˈnosɪ/ to carry, bring #689
- Slovak nosiť/nɔsic/ to carry #807
- Slovenian nositi/nɔsìːti/ to carry #715
- Spanish hacer/aˈθeɾ/ to do, perform, execute, carry out #68
- Swedish bär/bɛːr/ to carry; to lift and transport anywhere else #870
- Tagalog magdala/maɡdaˈla/ to carry #803
- Tamil எடு/ɛɖɯ/ to take, pick up, carry #498
- Telugu నిర్వహించు/ˈnirʋaˌhincu/ to manage, carry through, perform #1,956
- Turkish geçirmek/ɟe.t͡ʃiɾˈmec/ To take or carry something from one place or… #1,305
- Ukrainian нести[neˈstɪ] to carry #2,188
- Vietnamese mang[maːŋ˧˧] to carry #316
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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