How to say “eight” in 48 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.
- ocho/ˈot͡ʃo/ Spanish
- восемь[ˈvosʲɪmʲ] Russian
- ثمانية/θa.maː.ni.ja/ Arabic
- 팔[pʰa̠ɭ] Korean
- आठ/ɑːʈʰ/ Hindi
- שמונה/ʃa.moː.ˈnaː/ Hebrew
“eight” in Spanish: ocho · French: huit · German: acht · Italian: otto · Portuguese: oito · Korean: 팔 · Russian: восемь · Arabic: ثمانية
It is commonest in Icelandic, where átta is the 338th most used word.
Eight in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans agt/aχt/ #907
- Albanian tetë/tɛt(ə)/ #715
- Arabic ثمانية/θa.maː.ni.ja/ #757
- Basque zortzi/s̻ort͡s̻i/ #547
- Bengali আট/aʈ/ #752
- Bosnian osam/ôsam/ #805
- Bulgarian осем[ˈɔsɛm] #982
- Catalan vuit[ˈbujt] #887
- Croatian osam/ôsam/ #828
- Czech osm[ˈosm̩] #967
- Danish otte/ˈɔːtə/ #710
- Dutch acht/ɑxt/ #705
- Esperanto ok/ok/ #1,052
- Estonian kaheksa/ˈkɑheksɑ/ #747
- Finnish kahdeksan/ˈkɑhdeksɑn/ #1,081
- French huit/ɥit/ #1,191
- Galician oito/ˈojto/ #725
- German acht/axt/ #885
- Greek η/i/ The number eight in Greek numerals #12
- Hebrew שמונה/ʃa.moː.ˈnaː/ #701
- Hindi आठ/ɑːʈʰ/ #1,096
- Hungarian nyolc[ˈɲolt͡s] #1,244
- Icelandic átta[ˈauhta] #338
- Indonesian delapan/dəˈlapan/ #1,084
- Italian otto/ˈɔt.to/ #1,008
- Korean 팔[pʰa̠ɭ] #605
- Latvian astoņi[ˈɑstuo̯ɲi] #1,491
- Lithuanian aštuoni[ɐʃtuɔˈnʲɪ] #1,138
- Macedonian осум[ˈɔsum] #808
- Malay lapan/ˈlapan/ #939
- Malayalam എട്ട്/eʈʈɨ/ #634
- Norwegian åtte/ˈɔtə/ #694
- Persian هشت[hǽʃt̪ʰ] #680
- Polish osiem/ˈɔ.ɕɛm/ #1,620
- Portuguese oito/ˈoj.tu/ #934
- Romanian opt/opt/ #936
- Russian восемь[ˈvosʲɪmʲ] #1,357
- Serbian osam/ôsam/ #801
- Slovak osem/ɔsem/ #647
- Slovenian osem/òːsəm/ #420
- Spanish ocho/ˈot͡ʃo/ #909
- Swedish åtta/²ɔtːa/ #718
- Tagalog walo/waˈlo/ #1,525
- Tamil எட்டு/ɛʈːɯ/ #606
- Turkish sekiz/seˈciz/ #800
- Ukrainian вісім[ˈʋʲisʲim] #1,306
- Urdu آٹھ/ɑːʈʰ/ #689
- Vietnamese tám[taːm˧˦] #1,476
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.