How to say “class” 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.
- класс[kɫas] Russian
- 수업[sʰuʌ̹p̚] Korean
- श्रेणी/ʃɾeː.ɳiː/ Hindi
- σειρά/siˈra/ Greek
- כיתה/kiˈta/ Hebrew
- դաս/dɑs/ Armenian
“class” in French: classe · Italian: classe · Portuguese: classe · Korean: 수업 · Russian: класс · Hindi: श्रेणी · Turkish: sınıf · Greek: σειρά
It is commonest in Persian, where کلاس is the 596th most used word.
Class in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans werkersklas/ˈvɛr.kərˌklas/ working class #2,108
- Albanian klasë/klasə/ class, classroom #1,554
- Armenian դաս/dɑs/ class; category; order #1,307
- Basque mota/mota/ type, kind, class #423
- Bengali রকম/rɔkom/ type; class; kind #462
- Bosnian razred/rǎːzred/ #2,492
- Bulgarian класа[ˈkɫasɐ] #1,404
- Catalan classe[ˈkla.sə] class; kind #675
- Czech třídy[ˈtr̝̊iːdɪ] #1,747
- Danish klasse/ˈklasə/ #1,410
- Dutch klas/klɑs/ a school class #1,429
- Esperanto klaso/ˈklaso/ #845
- Estonian saksa/ˈsɑksɑ/ An upper class person, lord #1,221
- French classe/klas/ class, type, group #921
- Galician criminal/kɾimiˈnal/ that can be very bad in its class or that can… #1,739
- Greek σειρά/siˈra/ #639
- Hebrew כיתה/kiˈta/ A class, a course #1,715
- Hindi श्रेणी/ʃɾeː.ɳiː/ class, rank, division #2,391
- Indonesian naga/ˈna.ɡa/ naga: a member of a class of semi-divine… #1,103
- Italian classe/ˈklas.se/ #1,177
- Korean 수업[sʰuʌ̹p̚] a class #894
- Latvian klases/ˈklases/ grade, class #1,602
- Lithuanian klasė[²ˈklɑːsʲeː] socioeconomic class #1,702
- Macedonian класа[ˈkɫasa] #1,376
- Malayalam ക്ലാസ്/kɭaːsɨ/ #689
- Norwegian klasse/ˈklɑsə/ a class #1,794
- Persian کلاس/keˈlɒːs/ #596
- Polish klasy/ˈkla.sɘ/ #1,783
- Portuguese classe/ˈkla.si/ class, kind #1,666
- Romanian clasă/ˈkla.sə/ #1,700
- Russian класс[kɫas] #1,590
- Slovenian razred/ràːzrɛt/ class, grade, form #793
- Swedish kurs/kʉːrs/ course, class #2,287
- Tagalog uri/ˈʔuɾiʔ/ type; class; kind #485
- Tamil வகுப்பு/ʋɐɡʊpːɯ/ #1,513
- Telugu రకాల/ˈrakaːla/ sort, kind, class, style, quality #696
- Turkish sınıf/sɯˈnɯf/ #1,101
- Ukrainian клас[kɫas] #1,166
- Vietnamese cấp[kəp̚˧˦] rank; level; class #504
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.