How to say “center” in 34 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.
- centro/ˈθentɾo/ Spanish
- центр[t͡sɛntr] Russian
- 가운데[ka̠unde̞] Korean
- מרכז/meʁˈkaz/ Hebrew
- সদর/ʃɔd̪oɾ/ Bengali
- കേന്ദ്രം/keːn̪d̪ɾam/ Malayalam
“center” in Spanish: centro · Korean: 가운데 · Russian: центр · Turkish: merkezi
It is commonest in Tagalog, where gitna is the 724th most used word.
Center in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian qendër/ˈcɛndəɾ/ center; headquarters #1,077
- Arabic وسط/wa.satˤ/ amidst, midst, at the center of, in the… #618
- Bengali সদর/ʃɔd̪oɾ/ #2,099
- Bosnian centar/t͡sêntar/ center / centre #1,217
- Catalan centre[ˈsen.tɾə] #935
- Croatian centar/t͡sêntar/ center / centre #1,331
- English brain/ˈbɹeɪ̯n/ The control center of the central nervous… #911
- Esperanto centro/ˈt͡sentro/ center, centre #957
- Estonian keskus/ˈkeskus/ centre/center #1,818
- French centre[sɒ̃tʁ̞] centre, center #964
- German city/ˈsɪti/ city center, downtown, central business… #1,718
- Greek κέντρο/ˈcedro/ centre, center: the middle of something or… #750
- Hebrew מרכז/meʁˈkaz/ center, centre #1,270
- Hungarian központ[ˈkøspont] center, central point, central office,… #2,349
- Indonesian otak/ˈɔtaʔ/ The control center of the central nervous… #808
- Italian centro/ˈt͡ʃɛn.tro/ centre, center #861
- Korean 가운데[ka̠unde̞] center; the middle #1,081
- Latvian centrā/ˈt͡sentraː/ #1,572
- Lithuanian centras[²ˈt͡sʲɛnˑtrɐs] #1,113
- Macedonian средина[ˈsrɛdina] middle, center #1,800
- Malayalam കേന്ദ്രം/keːn̪d̪ɾam/ #1,294
- Persian مرکز[mæɹ.kʰʲǽz] centre, center #578
- Polish środku/ˈɕrɔt.ku/ middle, center #673
- Romanian mijlocul/ˈmiʒlokul/ middle, center, mean #1,077
- Russian центр[t͡sɛntr] center, centre #1,703
- Serbian centar/t͡sêntar/ center / centre #1,217
- Slovak centrum/t͡sentrum/ #1,171
- Slovenian središče/srɛdìːʃt͡ʃɛ/ #1,182
- Spanish centro/ˈθentɾo/ #810
- Tagalog gitna/ɡitˈnaʔ/ center; middle #724
- Turkish merkezi/mæɾ.ce.ˈziː/ #1,210
- Ukrainian центр[t͡sɛntr] centre, center #1,252
- Urdu مرکز/məɾ.kəz/ centre, center #718
- Vietnamese giữa[zɨə˦ˀ˥] in the middle; in the center; amidst;… #537
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), 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.