How to say “day” in 52 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.
- día/ˈdia/ Spanish
- 날[na̠ɭ] Korean
- दिन/d̪ɪn/ Hindi
- ημέρα/iˈme.ɾa/ Greek
- დღე[d̥ʁe̞] Georgian
- օր/oɾ/ Armenian
“day” in Spanish: día · French: jour · German: tage · Italian: giorno · Korean: 날 · Hindi: दिन · Turkish: gün · Greek: ημέρα
It is commonest in Korean, where 날 is the 32nd most used word.
Day in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans dae/ˈdɑː(ə)/ a day #197
- Albanian ditë[ˈdit(ə)] #134
- Arabic يوم/jawm/ at the day when #102
- Armenian օր/oɾ/ #111
- Basque egun/eɡun/ #70
- Bengali দিন/d̪in/ #113
- Bosnian dana/ˈdanɐ/ #141
- Bulgarian ден[dɛn] #117
- Catalan dia[ˈdi.ə] #116
- Chinese 一天/i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/ one day #94
- Croatian dana/ˈdanɐ/ #142
- Czech dny[ˈdnɪ] #565
- Danish dag/daːˀɣ/ #120
- Dutch dag/dɑx/ #149
- English today/təˈdeɪ/ On the current day or date #228
- Esperanto tagon/ˈtaɡon/ #187
- Estonian päeva/ˈpæe̯vɑ/ #274
- Finnish päivä/ˈpæi̯ʋæ/ #305
- French jour/ʒuʁ/ #194
- Galician día/ˈdia/ #87
- Georgian დღე[d̥ʁe̞] #162
- German tage/ˈtaːɡə/ #543
- Greek ημέρα/iˈme.ɾa/ #692
- Hebrew יום/joːm/ Day: the period between dawn and dusk #132
- Hindi दिन/d̪ɪn/ #131
- Hungarian nap[ˈnɒp] on the specified day #153
- Icelandic dag/taːɣ/ a day #109
- Indonesian besok/ˈbesɔʔ̚/ on the day after the present day #304
- Italian giorno/ˈd͡ʒor.no/ #175
- Korean 날[na̠ɭ] #32
- Latvian dienu/ˈdieːnu/ #211
- Lithuanian dieną[²ˈdʲiɛnɑː] day, daytime #174
- Macedonian ден[dɛn] #113
- Malay hari/ˈhari/ day: A period of time equal or almost equal… #64
- Malayalam ഇന്ന്/in̪n̪ɨ/ today, this day #61
- Norwegian dag/dɑːɡ/ a day #123
- Persian روز[ɹuːz] #77
- Polish dni/ˈdɲi/ day; daytime #292
- Romanian zile[ˈzile] #272
- Russian раз[ras] once, one day, once upon a time #90
- Serbian dana/ˈdanɐ/ #137
- Slovak deň/ɟeɲ/ #111
- Slovenian dan/dáːn/ #94
- Spanish día/ˈdia/ #134
- Swedish dag/dɑː(ɡ)/ a day #153
- Tagalog araw-araw/ˌʔaɾaw ˈʔaɾaw/ daily; every day #648
- Tamil நாள்/nɑːɭ/ #81
- Telugu రోజు/ɾoːd͡ʑu/ #63
- Turkish gün/ˈɟyn/ #97
- Ukrainian раз[raz] once, one day, once upon a time #93
- Urdu دن/d̪ɪn/ #108
- Vietnamese ngày[ŋaj˨˩] #126
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.