How to say “date” in 37 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.
- cita/ˈθita/ Spanish
- تاريخ/taː.riːx/ Arabic
- 日子/ɻ̩⁵¹ d͡z̥ɹ̩¹/ Chinese
- 데이트[te̞itʰɯ] Korean
- ημερομηνία/i.me.ro.miˈni.a/ Greek
- তারিখ/t̪aɾikʰ/ Bengali
“date” in Spanish: cita · French: rendez-vous · German: date · Portuguese: data · Chinese: 日子 · Korean: 데이트 · Arabic: تاريخ · Turkish: tarih
It is commonest in Chinese, where 日子 is the 279th most used word.
Date in other languages, A to Z
- Arabic تاريخ/taː.riːx/ date, time #663
- Armenian ժամադրություն/ʒɑmɑdɾuˈtʰjun/ appointment; meeting; date #1,714
- Bengali তারিখ/t̪aɾikʰ/ #857
- Bosnian datum/dǎːtum/ #1,980
- Catalan data[ˈda.tə] #2,114
- Chinese 日子/ɻ̩⁵¹ d͡z̥ɹ̩¹/ date; day #279
- Croatian datum/dǎːtum/ #1,830
- Czech rande[ˈrandɛ] date, appointment #800
- Danish tidspunkt[ˈtˢiðsˌpʰɔŋˀd̥] time, moment, date, point in time #790
- Dutch date/deːt/ a date #1,544
- English today/təˈdeɪ/ On the current day or date #228
- Finnish päiväys/ˈpæi̯ʋæys/ #2,069
- French rendez-vous/ʁɑ̃.de.vu/ #669
- German date/dɛɪ̯t/ #1,586
- Greek ημερομηνία/i.me.ro.miˈni.a/ #2,143
- Hebrew פגישה/pɡiˈʃa/ A meeting, an appointment, a date #756
- Icelandic stefnumót[ˈstɛpnʏˌmouːt] #2,450
- Indonesian pacaran[paˈt͡ʃaran] to date: to have a steady relationship with;… #2,431
- Korean 데이트[te̞itʰɯ] #525
- Latvian randiņš/ˈraŋdiɲʃ/ #1,586
- Macedonian рок[rɔk] due date #1,085
- Malay tarikh/ˈtarix/ #1,176
- Malayalam തീയതി/t̪iːjɐd̪i/ #831
- Norwegian date/dæɪ̯t/ a date #1,239
- Polish randkę/ˈrant.kɛ/ date, tryst #1,782
- Portuguese data/ˈda.tɐ/ #1,725
- Russian свидание[svʲɪˈdanʲɪje] appointment; date #1,045
- Serbian datum/dǎːtum/ #2,041
- Slovak dátum/daːtum/ #1,236
- Slovenian datum/dàːtum/ #920
- Spanish cita/ˈθita/ #741
- Swedish dejt/ˈdɛjt/ a date #1,500
- Tagalog petsa/ˈpet͡ʃa/ #1,109
- Tamil தேதி/t̪eːd̪iː/ date, day of the month #717
- Telugu ఈత/iːt̪a/ wild date tree called Phoenix sylvestris #595
- Turkish tarih/tɑːˈɾih/ #1,351
- Urdu تاریخ/t̪ɑː.ɾiːx/ date; appointment #335
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.