How to say “die” in 49 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.
- muerto/ˈmweɾto/ Spanish
- مات/maː.ta/ Arabic
- 死亡/sɹ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ wɑŋ³⁵/ Chinese
- मर/məɾ/ Hindi
- πέθανε/ˈpeθane/ Greek
- מת/ˈmeːθ/ Hebrew
“die” in Spanish: muerto · French: mort · German: sterben · Italian: morendo · Portuguese: morrer · Chinese: 死亡 · Arabic: مات · Hindi: मर
It is commonest in Persian, where مرد is the 88th most used word.
Die in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans sterf/stɛrf/ to die #288
- Albanian vdes/vdɛs/ to die #362
- Arabic مات/maː.ta/ to die #219
- Armenian մեռա/meˈrɑ/ to die #817
- Bengali মরে/mɔɾe/ to die #435
- Bosnian umro/ˈumro/ to die #573
- Bulgarian умра[omˈrɤ] to die, to mortify, to pass away, to depart #802
- Catalan mort[ˈmɔrt] to die #160
- Chinese 死亡/sɹ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ wɑŋ³⁵/ to die #167
- Croatian umrijeti/ǔmrjeːti/ to die #535
- Czech zemřít[ˈzɛmr̝iːt] to die, to pass away, to decease #1,088
- Danish død[ˈd̥øˀð] #189
- Dutch sterven/ˈstɛrvə(n)/ to die #529
- Esperanto mortis/ˈmortis/ to die, pass away #252
- Estonian surra/ˈsurːɑ/ to die #715
- Finnish kuollut/ˈkuo̯lːut/ to die #260
- French mort/mɔʁ/ to die; to be dying #170
- Galician morrer[moˈreɾ] to die #351
- Georgian მოკვდა[mo̞kʼʷdä] to die #463
- German sterben/ˈʃtɛrbən/ to die #403
- Greek πέθανε/ˈpeθane/ to die #417
- Hebrew מת/ˈmeːθ/ To die #185
- Hindi मर/məɾ/ to die, to perish #203
- Hungarian meghalt[ˈmɛkhɒlt] to die #352
- Icelandic deyja[ˈteija] to die #248
- Indonesian mati/ˈmati/ to die #101
- Italian morendo/moˈrɛndo/ to die #1,739
- Latvian mirt[mīɾt] to die #947
- Lithuanian mirė[ˈmʲɪrʲeː] to die #313
- Macedonian умре[ˈumrɛ] to die #297
- Malay meninggal/mə.niŋ.ɡal/ to die; to pass away #510
- Malayalam മരിക്കുക/mɐɾikkjuɡɐ/ to die #1,656
- Norwegian dø/døː/ to die #299
- Persian مرد[mæɹd̪̥] to die #88
- Polish umrzeć/ˈu.mʐɛt͡ɕ/ to die #1,022
- Portuguese morrer/moˈʁe(ʁ)/ to die #315
- Romanian murit[muˈrit] to die #329
- Russian умереть[ʊmʲɪˈrʲetʲ] to die of natural causes #926
- Serbian umro/ˈumro/ to die #558
- Slovak zomrieť/zɔmrɪ̯ec/ to die #468
- Slovenian umreti/umrèːti/ to die #369
- Spanish muerto/ˈmweɾto/ to die #308
- Swedish dö/døː/ to die #311
- Tagalog mamatay/mamaˈtaj/ to die #237
- Tamil செத்த/tʃɛt̪ːɐ/ to die, pass away #1,823
- Turkish öldü/ølˈdy/ to die #328
- Ukrainian померти[pɔˈmɛrte] to die #991
- Urdu مرنا/məɾ.nɑː/ to die, to be dead #960
- Vietnamese toi[tɔj˧˧] to die in epidemic #2,139
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.