How to say “else” 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.
“else” in Portuguese: senão
It is commonest in Finnish, where muuten is the 385th most used word.
Else in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans ander/ˈanər/ another, another person, someone else #114
- Bengali অন্য/onːo/ other, something else #157
- Bulgarian друг[druk] other, another, else #177
- Catalan primer[pɾiˈme] first; before anything else #215
- Chinese 其他/t͡ɕʰi³⁵ tʰä⁵⁵/ other; else #88
- Danish anden/ˈanən/ other, another, else #160
- Dutch eerst/eːrst/ first, at first, before something else #292
- English first/fɜːst/ Before anything else; firstly #140
- Esperanto aliloke/aliˈloke/ elsewhere, somewhere else; anywhere else #1,571
- Finnish muuten/ˈmuːten/ else, or else, otherwise #385
- French ailleurs/a.jœʁ/ elsewhere; somewhere else #748
- Georgian თორემ[tʰo̞ɾe̞m] or else, otherwise #401
- German woanders/voˈʔandɐs/ elsewhere, somewhere else #1,898
- Greek αλλιώς/aˈʎos/ otherwise; else; differently #420
- Hebrew ולא/waˈloːʔ/ or else #209
- Hindi अन्यथा/ən.jə.t̪ʰɑː/ otherwise, or else #1,418
- Hungarian más[ˈmaːʃ] someone else, something else #131
- Icelandic annars[ˈan(ː)ar̥s] or else, otherwise #242
- Indonesian lain/lain/ other, another, else #90
- Italian altro/ˈal.tro/ other, another, more, further, else #119
- Korean 혹은[ɸʷo̞ɡɯn] or; or else #593
- Lithuanian toliau[toː²ˈlʲɛʊˑ] further; else #201
- Malay penutup/pənutup/ lid; something used to close something else #1,534
- Persian وگرنه[væ.ɡʲæɹ.ne] otherwise; or else; if not #527
- Portuguese senão/seˈnɐ̃w̃/ else, otherwise; apart from, besides #1,246
- Romanian altceva/al(t).t͡ʃeˈva/ something else #415
- Swedish andra/ˈanˌdra/ other, else, other one #131
- Tagalog katumbas/katumˈbas/ equivalent of something else; equal #1,849
- Tamil அல்லது/ɐllɐd̪ɯ/ or, if not, or else #56
- Telugu లేకుంటే/ˈleːkunʈeː/ or else, otherwise #1,786
- Turkish başkası/baʃ.kaˈsɯ/ someone, something, anyone or anything else #1,665
- Vietnamese hộ[ho˧˨ʔ] in place of someone else; in someone else's… #540
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) 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.