How to say “come” in 53 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.
- ven/ˈben/ Spanish
- आ/aː/ Hindi
- έλα/ˈe.la/ Greek
- בא/ba/ Hebrew
- მოდის[mo̞dis] Georgian
- գալիս/ɡɑˈlis/ Armenian
“come” in Spanish: ven · French: viens · German: komm · Italian: vieni · Hindi: आ · Greek: έλα
It is commonest in Telugu, where వచ్చింది is the 28th most used word.
Come in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans kom/kɔm/ #33
- Albanian hajde/hajdɛ/ come on, c'mon #130
- Arabic هيا/haj.jaː/ come on!; let's; let's go! #58
- Armenian գալիս/ɡɑˈlis/ to come #82
- Basque etorri/etori/ to come #49
- Bengali হবে/hobe/ to be, to become; to come into existence #14
- Bosnian došao/ˈdoʃɐo/ to come, arrive #268
- Bulgarian хайде[ˈxajdɛ] come on! #87
- Catalan tornar[turˈna] to return, to go/come back #211
- Chinese 遇到/y⁵¹⁻⁵³ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/ to come across; to encounter; to have; to… #252
- Croatian došao/ˈdoʃɐo/ to come, arrive #243
- Czech došlo[ˈdoʃlo] to arrive, to come #900
- Danish kom[ˈkʰʌm] to come #49
- Dutch kom/kɔm/ to come #78
- English meet/mit/ To come face to face with by accident; to… #312
- Esperanto venu/ˈvenu/ to come #91
- Estonian tuleb/ˈtuleb̥/ to come #129
- Finnish tule/ˈtule/ to come #86
- French viens/vjɛ̃/ to come #156
- Galician veña/ˈbeɲa/ to come #125
- Georgian მოდის[mo̞dis] to come #526
- German komm/kɔm/ to come; to arrive #115
- Greek έλα/ˈe.la/ to come #86
- Hebrew בא/ba/ To come #249
- Hindi आ/aː/ to come, approach, draw near; to arrive, reach #96
- Hungarian gyerünk[ˈɟɛryŋk] to come #101
- Icelandic koma[ˈkʰɔːma] to come #68
- Indonesian ayo/ˈajo/ come on! #63
- Italian vieni/ˈvjɛnɪ/ to come #244
- Korean 어째서[ʌ̹t͡ɕ͈ɛsʰʌ̹] why, for what reason, how come #542
- Latvian nāc/ˈnaːt͡s/ to come #127
- Lithuanian ateik[ɐ²ˈtʲɛɪˑk] to come, to arrive #217
- Macedonian дојде[ˈdɔjdɛ] to come, arrive #138
- Malay datang/ˈdataŋ/ to come #55
- Malayalam വന്ന്/ʋɐn̪n̪ɨ/ to come #164
- Norwegian kom/kɔm/ to come; to approach or move towards the… #47
- Persian برگرد/bæɾɡæɾd/ to return, to come back #448
- Polish wrócić/ˈvru.t͡ɕit͡ɕ/ to come back, to go back, to return #471
- Portuguese volta/ˈvɔw.tɐ/ to return; to come back #212
- Romanian haide/ˈhaj.de/ come on, c'mon #127
- Russian вернуться[vʲɪrˈnut͡sːə] to return, to come back #458
- Serbian došao/ˈdoʃɐo/ to come, arrive #244
- Slovak prišiel/priʃɪ̯el/ to arrive, to come #171
- Slovenian priti/prìːti/ to come #241
- Spanish ven/ˈben/ to come, by default the speaker's location #239
- Swedish har/hɑːr/ To have; to possess, or to have as a… #9
- Tagalog halika/haˈlika/ come here! #150
- Tamil வா/ʋɑː/ to come, arrive #76
- Telugu వచ్చింది/ˈʋaccindi/ to come, arrive #28
- Turkish olduğunu/oɫduːˈnu/ to become, come to exist, come into being #41
- Ukrainian давай[dɐˈʋai̯] come on! #67
- Urdu آیا/ɑː.jɑː/ to come, to arrive #169
- Vietnamese lộ[lo˧˨ʔ] to come out; to be discovered #863
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.