How to say “damage” 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.
- daño/ˈdaɲo/ Spanish
- خسارة/xa.saː.ra/ Arabic
- ζημιά/ziˈmɲa/ Greek
- נזק/ˈnezek/ Hebrew
- சேதம்/tʃeːd̪ɐm/ Tamil
“damage” in Spanish: daño · French: dommage · Italian: danni · Portuguese: danos · Arabic: خسارة · Turkish: zarar · Greek: ζημιά
It is commonest in Turkish, where zarar is the 465th most used word.
Damage in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans skade/skɑːdə/ #763
- Albanian dëm/dəm/ #1,455
- Arabic خسارة/xa.saː.ra/ #1,357
- Armenian վնասել/vənɑˈsel/ to harm, damage #1,103
- Basque kalte/ˈkalte/ #659
- Bengali ক্ষতি/kʰot̪i/ harm, damage, detriment #478
- Bosnian šteta/ʃtêta/ damage, harm #815
- Croatian šteta/ʃtêta/ damage, harm #796
- Danish skade/skaːðə/ damage, harm #650
- Dutch schade/ˈsxaː.də/ damage, detrimental effect #1,508
- English attack/əˈtæk/ An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or… #783
- Estonian kahju/ˈkɑhju/ harm, damage #215
- French dommage/dɔ.maʒ/ #1,100
- Greek ζημιά/ziˈmɲa/ damage, harm #1,731
- Hebrew נזק/ˈnezek/ Damage, detriment #1,200
- Hungarian kár[ˈkaːr] damage, loss, detriment #1,060
- Icelandic grand[ˈkrant] damage, harm, destruction #1,896
- Indonesian serangan/səˈraŋan/ an attempt to cause damage, injury to, or… #654
- Italian danni/ˈdan.ni/ damage, harm, injury #2,074
- Korean 피해[ˈpʰi(ː)ɦɛ] harm; damage #835
- Macedonian штета[ˈʃtɛta] harm, damage #606
- Malay serangan/səˈraŋan/ an attempt to cause damage, injury to, or… #488
- Malayalam ഉപദ്രവം/upɐd̪ɾɐʋɐm/ harm, causing damage, torture #2,397
- Norwegian skade/ˈskɑːdə/ #705
- Persian خسارت[xæ.sɒː.ɹǽt̪ʰ] loss, damage #2,208
- Polish szkoda/ˈʂkɔ.da/ damage, harm #858
- Portuguese danos/ˈdɐ̃nus/ #2,319
- Romanian strica/striˈka/ to spoil, ruin, damage, mar #2,442
- Serbian šteta/ʃtêta/ damage, harm #748
- Spanish daño/ˈdaɲo/ #690
- Swedish skada/ˈskɑːda/ scathe; damage, an injury, a harm, a wound #704
- Tagalog sira/ˈsiɾaʔ/ damage; tear; rupture; defect; break #542
- Tamil சேதம்/tʃeːd̪ɐm/ damage, ruin #842
- Turkish zarar/zaˈɾaɾ/ damage, harm #465
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) and Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.