How to say “drop” in 32 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.
- أسقط/ʔasqatˤa/ Arabic
- շաղ/ʃɑʁ/ Armenian
- ফেলা/fæla/ Bengali
“drop” in Arabic: أسقط
It is commonest in Bengali, where ফেলা is the 566th most used word.
Drop in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans drup/drœp/ A drop of a liquid #1,860
- Albanian pikë/pikə/ drop, droplet #636
- Arabic أسقط/ʔasqatˤa/ to drop, to let or cause to fall, to topple,… #2,424
- Armenian շաղ/ʃɑʁ/ drop, dew #1,415
- Basque apaldu/apaldu/ to lower, drop down #2,085
- Bengali ফেলা/fæla/ to drop, to let fall #566
- Bosnian upao/ˈupɐo/ to fall into, drop into #2,271
- Bulgarian падна[ˈpadnɐ] to fall, to drop #1,154
- Chinese 算了/su̯än⁵¹ lə¹/ forget it; forget about it; drop it; leave it… #374
- Croatian kap/ˈkap/ #2,337
- Czech pusť[ˈpusc] to drop #1,118
- Dutch zak/zɑk/ to fall, to drop, to sink #902
- Finnish pudota/ˈpudotɑˣ/ to fall; to fall down, fall off; to drop, slip #2,306
- German fall/fal/ to fall, to drop #345
- Greek έπεσε/ˈepeˌse/ to fall, fall off, drop #813
- Hindi पड़ा/pə.ɽɑː/ to fall, to fall down, to drop #678
- Icelandic falli/ˈfatlɪ/ fall, drop #1,729
- Indonesian menjatuhkan/məndʒaˈtuhkan/ to drop #1,541
- Malay jatuh/ˈd͡ʒatoh/ to fall; to drop #357
- Malayalam ഇട്ടു/iʈʈu/ to drop something down, to put #635
- Persian قطره[qæt̪ʰ.ɹé] #2,049
- Portuguese cair/kaˈi(ʁ)/ to fall; to fall down; to drop #923
- Romanian scăpat/skəˈpat/ to drop #899
- Serbian upao/ˈupɐo/ to fall into, drop into #2,191
- Slovak kvapka/ˈkvapka/ #2,484
- Slovenian kaplja/kàːplja/ #1,762
- Spanish tiro/ˈtiɾo/ to drop intentionally #1,616
- Swedish tappade/ˈtapadɛ/ to drop #1,384
- Tagalog bagsak/baɡˈsak/ fall; drop; crash #826
- Telugu కారు/kaːɾu/ to flow, drop, run out, run in drops, trickle #107
- Urdu قطرہ/qət̪.ɾɑ(ː)/ drop/droplet #1,739
- Vietnamese mê[me˧˧] to drop off to sleep, to lose consciousness #1,016
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), 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.