How to say “decide” in 35 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.
- decidido/deθiˈdido/ Spanish
- قضى/qadˤaː/ Arabic
- 決定/t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵ tiŋ⁵¹/ Chinese
- αποφάσισα/ˌapoˈfasiˌsa/ Greek
- გადაწყვიტა[ɡ̊ädät͡sʼχʼʷitʼä] Georgian
- որոշել/voɾoˈʃel/ Armenian
“decide” in Spanish: decidido · French: décidé · German: entscheiden · Italian: deciso · Portuguese: decidir · Chinese: 決定 · Arabic: قضى · Greek: αποφάσισα
It is commonest in Basque, where erabaki is the 257th most used word.
Decide in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans besluit/bəˈsløyt/ to decide #296
- Albanian vendosur/vɛndɔsuɾ/ to decide #507
- Arabic قضى/qadˤaː/ to decide, decide upon, resolve, preordain,… #1,799
- Armenian որոշել/voɾoˈʃel/ to decide #700
- Basque erabaki/eɾabaki/ to decide, to choose #257
- Bosnian odlučiti/odlǔːt͡ʃiti/ to decide #2,282
- Bulgarian реша[rɛˈʃɤ̟] to decide, to resolve #2,156
- Catalan triar[tɾiˈa] to pick, to decide, to choose #1,059
- Chinese 決定/t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵ tiŋ⁵¹/ to decide; to make a decision #845
- Croatian odlučiti/odlǔːt͡ʃiti/ to decide #1,630
- Czech rozhodnutí[ˈrozɦodnuciː] to decide #808
- Danish besluttet/beˈsludəð/ to decide #1,638
- Dutch gekozen/ɣəˈkoːzən/ to choose, decide #1,562
- Esperanto decidis/deˈt͡sidis/ to decide #353
- Estonian otsustama/ˈotsustɑmɑ/ to decide #2,004
- French décidé/desiˈde/ to decide #793
- Galician decidín/deθiˈdin/ to decide; to resolve; to settle #1,594
- Georgian გადაწყვიტა[ɡ̊ädät͡sʼχʼʷitʼä] to decide, to resolve #682
- German entscheiden/ʔɛntˈʃaɪ̯dn̩/ to decide, to make a decision #1,248
- Greek αποφάσισα/ˌapoˈfasiˌsa/ to decide, resolve, reach a verdict #1,622
- Hebrew החליט/heˈχlit/ To opt, choose, decide #1,656
- Italian deciso/deˈt͡ʃi.zo/ to decide, to fix, to arrange, to determine #698
- Lithuanian nutariau[ˈnʊtɐrʲɛʊ] to decide, to resolve #1,752
- Macedonian реши[ˈrɛʃi] to decide #1,032
- Malay tentukan/tənˈtukan/ to determine; to decide; to fix #1,895
- Malayalam തീരുമാനിക്കുക/t̪iːɾumaːnikkjuɡɐ/ to decide a plan, course, decision, etc #2,384
- Norwegian bestemt/bəˈstɛmt/ to decide #1,078
- Portuguese decidir/de.siˈd͡ʒi(ʁ)/ to decide #1,653
- Romanian decide/deˈt͡ʃi.de/ to decide #1,834
- Serbian odlučiti/odlǔːt͡ʃiti/ to decide #2,499
- Slovak rozhodnúť/rɔzɦɔdnuːc/ to decide #895
- Spanish decidido/deθiˈdido/ to decide, to make up one's mind, to… #1,467
- Swedish bestämmer/bɛsˈtɛmɛr/ to decide from a position of authority #1,148
- Ukrainian вирішити[ˈʋɪrʲiʃete] to decide #1,890
- Vietnamese quyết[kwiət̚˧˦] to decide, to determine #355
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 Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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