How to say “feel” in 45 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.
- siento/ˈsjento/ Spanish
- чувствовать[ˈt͡ɕustvəvətʲ] Russian
- أحس/ʔa.ħas.sa/ Arabic
- νιώθω/ˈɲo.θo/ Greek
- הרגיש/hiʁˈɡiʃ/ Hebrew
- ვგრძნობ[vɡɾd͡zno̞pʰ] Georgian
“feel” in Spanish: siento · French: ressens · German: fühle · Italian: senti · Russian: чувствовать · Arabic: أحس · Greek: νιώθω
It is commonest in Spanish, where siento is the 106th most used word.
Feel in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans voel/ˈful/ #171
- Albanian ndihem/ndiˈhɛm/ to feel emotionally #529
- Arabic أحس/ʔa.ħas.sa/ to feel, perceive, see #1,940
- Basque nabaritu/nabaɾitu/ to feel #1,044
- Bengali লাগে/laɡe/ to feel #245
- Bosnian osjetiti/ǒsjetiti/ to feel #2,118
- Bulgarian чувствам[ˈt͡ʃu̟stvɐm] to feel #355
- Chinese 抱歉/pɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵¹/ to be sorry; to feel apologetic #41
- Croatian osjećaj/ôsjet͡ɕaːj/ to feel #652
- Czech cítím[ˈt͡siːciːm] to feel #485
- Danish føler[ˈføːlɐ] to feel, sense #421
- Dutch voel/ˈvul/ to feel, to have sensation of #347
- English want/wɑnt/ To wish for or desire; to feel a need or… #66
- Esperanto sentas/ˈsentas/ to feel, perceive #234
- Estonian tunnen/ˈtunːen/ to feel #310
- Finnish tuntuu/ˈtuntuː/ to feel #310
- French ressens/ʁə.sɑ̃/ to feel #1,748
- Georgian ვგრძნობ[vɡɾd͡zno̞pʰ] to feel #218
- German fühle/ˈfyːlə/ to feel #712
- Greek νιώθω/ˈɲo.θo/ to feel #443
- Hebrew הרגיש/hiʁˈɡiʃ/ feel, sense #1,491
- Hindi छू/t͡ʃʰuː/ to touch, to feel #1,311
- Hungarian érzem[ˈeːrzɛm] to feel #307
- Icelandic finnast[ˈfɪn(ː)ast] to feel, to find, to think #1,189
- Indonesian ingin/ˈiŋin/ to wish for or desire; to feel a need or… #34
- Italian senti/ˈsɛn.ti/ to feel #226
- Latvian mīl/ˈmiːl/ to love, to feel love for #862
- Lithuanian jaustis/ˈjɐʊstɪs/ to feel #943
- Macedonian чувствува[ˈt͡ʃufstvuva] to feel, sense #1,270
- Malay terasa/tə.ra.sa/ to feel; to sense #1,044
- Malayalam തോന്നുക/t̪oːn̪n̪uɡɐ/ to feel #2,406
- Norwegian føler/ˈføːlər/ to feel #293
- Portuguese sinto/ˈsĩ.tu/ to sense; to feel #333
- Romanian simt/simt/ to feel #266
- Russian чувствовать[ˈt͡ɕustvəvətʲ] to feel #1,419
- Slovenian čutiti/t͡ʃutìːti/ to feel, to experience #1,220
- Spanish siento/ˈsjento/ to feel #106
- Swedish känner/ˈɕɛnɛr/ to feel, to sense #133
- Tagalog umasa/ʔuˈmasa/ to hope; to feel confident about #1,231
- Tamil குளிர்/kʊɭɪɾ/ to feel cold, chilly #347
- Telugu పొందు/pon̪d̪u/ to feel, experience #1,216
- Turkish acıyor/aˈd͡ʒɯjoɾ/ to pity, feel pity and compassion for #1,789
- Ukrainian відчувати[ʋʲid͡ʒt͡ʃʊˈʋate] to feel #2,334
- Urdu چھونا/t͡ʃʰuː.nɑː/ to touch, to feel #1,884
- Vietnamese cảm[kaːm˧˩] to feel #109
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), 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.