How to say “fall” 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.
- caer/kaˈeɾ/ Spanish
- गिर/ɡɪɾ/ Hindi
- έπεσε/ˈepeˌse/ Greek
- ընկնել/ənkˈnel/ Armenian
- పాటు/paːʈu/ Telugu
- سقوط[so.ʁuːt̪ʰ] Persian
“fall” in Spanish: caer · French: tomber · German: fall · Italian: cadere · Portuguese: cair · Hindi: गिर · Turkish: düşen · Greek: έπεσε
It is commonest in Telugu, where పాటు is the 252nd most used word.
Fall in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans val/fal/ to fall #309
- Albanian bie/ˈbiɛ/ to fall #504
- Arabic وقع/wa.qa.ʕa/ to fall down, to fall #884
- Armenian ընկնել/ənkˈnel/ to fall #778
- Basque jausi/ɟau̯s̺i/ to fall #1,114
- Bengali ফেলা/fæla/ to drop, to let fall #566
- Bosnian pasti/pâsti/ to fall #1,834
- Bulgarian падна[ˈpadnɐ] to fall, to drop #1,154
- Catalan caure[ˈkaw.ɾə] to fall #791
- Chinese 生病/ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ piŋ⁵¹/ to fall ill; to catch a disease; to contract… #621
- Croatian pasti/pâsti/ to fall #1,747
- Czech vypadnout[ˈvɪpadnou̯t] to fall out #1,585
- Danish fald/falˀ/ to fall #617
- Dutch vallen/ˈvɑlə(n)/ a fall #527
- English keep[k̟çi(ː)p] To continue in; to not intermit or fall from;… #179
- Esperanto falis/ˈfalis/ to fall #638
- Estonian sajab/ˈsɑjɑb̥/ to fall #1,906
- Finnish pudota/ˈpudotɑˣ/ to fall; to fall down, fall off; to drop, slip #2,306
- French tomber/tɔ̃.be/ to fall #479
- Galician caer/kaˈeɾ/ to fall, fall off, fall down #769
- German fall/fal/ to fall, to drop #345
- Greek έπεσε/ˈepeˌse/ to fall, fall off, drop #813
- Hebrew נפל/naˈfal/ To fall: to be pulled downward by gravity #1,061
- Hindi गिर/ɡɪɾ/ to fall, to tumble #383
- Hungarian esett[ˈɛʃɛtː] to fall #1,257
- Icelandic datt/taht/ to fall #439
- Indonesian tanggal/ˈtaŋɡal/ to fall out #1,091
- Italian cadere/kaˈde.re/ to fall #1,773
- Lithuanian užmigti[ʊʑˈmʲɪ.kʲt̪ʲɪ] to go to sleep; to fall asleep #1,285
- Macedonian замолчи[ˈzamɔɫt͡ʃi] to fall silent #428
- Malay jatuh/ˈd͡ʒatoh/ to fall; to drop #357
- Malayalam വീഴ്ത്തുക/ʋiːɻt̪t̪uɡɐ/ to make something fall #1,310
- Norwegian fall/ˈfɑl/ to fall #638
- Persian سقوط[so.ʁuːt̪ʰ] fall, falling, downfall #873
- Polish spadaj/ˈspa.daj/ to fall #2,203
- Portuguese cair/kaˈi(ʁ)/ to fall; to fall down; to drop #923
- Romanian cădea[kəˈde̯a] to fall #2,412
- Serbian spasao/ˈspasɐo/ to fall down #1,917
- Slovak zaspať/zaspac/ to fall asleep #1,537
- Slovenian pasti/pàːsti/ to fall #913
- Spanish caer/kaˈeɾ/ to fall #1,449
- Swedish fall/ˈfal/ to fall #337
- Tagalog bumagsak/bumaɡˈsak/ to fall #819
- Tamil துளி/t̪ʊɭiː/ to drip, fall in drops, trickle down #658
- Telugu పాటు/paːʈu/ a fall #252
- Turkish düşen/dyˈʃen/ to fall, fall down #2,473
- Ukrainian дістатися[dʲiˈstatesʲɐ] to fall to one's share; to fall to one's lot #1,850
- Urdu اتار/ʊ.t̪ɑːɾ/ descent, fall #1,220
- Vietnamese thu[tʰu˧˧] autumn; fall #688
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