How to say “clear” in 45 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.
- clara/ˈklaɾa/ Spanish
- واضح/waː.dˤiħ/ Arabic
- გარკვეული[ɡ̊äɾkʼʷe̞uli] Georgian
- স্পষ্ট/spɔʃʈo/ Bengali
“clear” in Spanish: clara · French: claire · Arabic: واضح · Turkish: net
It is commonest in Finnish, where selvä is the 104th most used word.
Clear in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans helder/ˈɦɛl.dər/ clear, bright #618
- Albanian qartë/ˈcaɾtə/ #441
- Arabic واضح/waː.dˤiħ/ #415
- Armenian պարզ/pɑɾz/ not clouded, clear, serene #348
- Bengali স্পষ্ট/spɔʃʈo/ clear, explicit, distinct #802
- Bosnian jasan/jâsan/ clear, limpid #2,270
- Bulgarian ясен[ˈja̟sɛn] clear, bright, cloudless #2,410
- Catalan clar[ˈkla] #190
- Chinese 表明/pi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ miŋ³⁵/ to make known; to make clear; to state clearly #969
- Croatian jasan/jâsan/ clear, limpid #2,346
- Czech jasný[ˈjasniː] #519
- Danish rydde[ˈʁyðə] To clear, empty #2,179
- English clearly/ˈklɪɚli/ In a clear manner #1,387
- Esperanto klara/ˈklara/ #1,907
- Estonian selge/ˈselɡ̊e/ clear, unmuddled #324
- Finnish selvä/ˈselʋæ/ #104
- French claire/klɛʁ/ #1,452
- Galician claro/ˈklaɾo/ clear, light #186
- Georgian გარკვეული[ɡ̊äɾkʼʷe̞uli] #878
- German erklären/ɛɐ̯ˈklɛːʁən/ to explain, to make clear #730
- Greek καθαρά/ˌkaθaˈra/ clean, clear #1,391
- Hebrew ברור/baˈʁuʁ/ Clear: evident, obvious, apparent, certain #298
- Hindi स्पष्ट/spəʂʈ/ coherent, understandable; clear #551
- Hungarian egyértelmű[ˈɛɟːeːrtɛlmyː] unambiguous, clear #2,112
- Icelandic tær[ˈtʰaiːr] #2,492
- Indonesian nyata/ˈɲata/ clear; obvious; evident #494
- Latvian skaidrs[skāīdrs] clean, clear, bright, without clouds #195
- Lithuanian grynas[¹ˈɡrʲiːnɐs] pure, clear, clean, neat #1,962
- Macedonian јасен[ˈjasɛn] clear, straightforward, comprehensible #2,098
- Malay bersih/bərˈsih/ clean, clear, hygienic, pure #897
- Malayalam നീല/n̪iːlɐ/ blue; the color of the clear sky and deep sea #612
- Norwegian klar/ˈklɑːr/ to clear #219
- Persian روشن[ɹow.ʃǽn] bright, clear #432
- Romanian pur/pur/ pure, clean, clear #610
- Russian выяснить[ˈvɨ(j)ɪsnʲɪtʲ] to clear up, to elucidate, to clarify, to… #1,263
- Serbian jasan/jâsan/ clear, limpid #2,396
- Slovenian jasen/jàːsən/ #1,063
- Spanish clara/ˈklaɾa/ #2,164
- Swedish tydligt/ˈtyːdlɪkt/ #2,066
- Tagalog malinaw/maˈlinaw/ #687
- Tamil விளக்கு/ʋɪɭɐkːɯ/ to explain, make clear, elucidate #1,030
- Telugu సాదా/ˈsaːdaː/ plain, clear, blank #1,302
- Turkish net/net/ #1,728
- Urdu ظاہر/zɑːɦɪɾ/ clear, apparent, obviously #347
- Vietnamese rõ[zɔ˦ˀ˥] #297
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.