How to say “discover” in 31 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.
- descubrir/deskuˈbɾiɾ/ Spanish
- اكتشف/ik.ta.ʃa.fa/ Arabic
- 發現/fä⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/ Chinese
- גילה/ɡiˈla/ Hebrew
- հայտնաբերել/hɑjtnɑbeˈɾel/ Armenian
“discover” in Spanish: descubrir · French: découvert · Portuguese: descobrir · Chinese: 發現 · Arabic: اكتشف
It is commonest in Portuguese, where descobrir is the 513th most used word.
Discover in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian zbuluar/zbuluaɾ/ to discover #959
- Arabic اكتشف/ik.ta.ʃa.fa/ to discover #1,399
- Armenian հայտնաբերել/hɑjtnɑbeˈɾel/ to discover #814
- Bosnian naći/nǎːt͡ɕi/ to find, discover #312
- Bulgarian открия[otˈkrijɐ] to discover #1,094
- Catalan descobrir[dəs.kuˈβɾi] to discover #1,148
- Chinese 發現/fä⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/ to discover; to find; to find out #588
- Croatian naći/nǎːt͡ɕi/ to find, discover #261
- Danish opdaget/ˈʌbˌdaːˀəð/ to discover, detect #1,809
- Dutch ontdekt/ɔntˈdɛkt/ to discover #1,116
- English find/ˈfaɪ̯nd/ To encounter or discover by accident; to… #144
- Esperanto malkovris/malˈkovris/ To discover #1,261
- Finnish löytää/ˈløy̯tæːˣ/ to find; to discover; to come across #402
- French découvert/de.ku.vɛʁ/ to discover #1,107
- Galician descubrir/deskuˈbɾiɾ/ to discover #2,021
- German finden[ˈfɪndn̩] to find; to discover #216
- Greek βρω/ˈvro/ to find, discover, locate #334
- Hebrew גילה/ɡiˈla/ to discover #1,425
- Icelandic uppgötva/ˈʏhpkœtva/ to discover #2,086
- Lithuanian radau[rɐ²ˈdɒʊˑ] find, discover #342
- Macedonian дознае[ˈdɔznaɛ] to find out, discover #799
- Malay mengetahui/məŋəˈtahuj/ to discover, to find out #601
- Norwegian oppdaget/ˈɔpˌdɑːɡət/ to discover #1,167
- Polish dowiedzieć/dɔˈvjɛ.d͡ʑɛt͡ɕ/ to find out, to learn, to discover #873
- Portuguese descobrir/d͡ʒis.kuˈbɾi(ʁ)/ to discover #513
- Romanian descoperi/ˌdeskopeˈɾʲi/ to discover #2,326
- Serbian naći/nǎːt͡ɕi/ to find, discover #338
- Slovak nájsť/naːjsc/ to find, to discover, to locate #210
- Spanish descubrir/deskuˈbɾiɾ/ to discover #1,969
- Swedish finnas/ˈfɪnas/ to find, to locate, to discover #789
- Tamil கண்டுபிடி/kɐɳɖʊbɪɖiː/ to find, discover, detect, figure out, spot,… #772
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