How to say “film” in 44 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.
- película/peˈlikula/ Spanish
- фильм[fʲilʲm] Russian
- فيلم/film/ Arabic
- ταινία/teˈnia/ Greek
- דוק/dok/ Hebrew
- ֆիլմ/film/ Armenian
“film” in Spanish: película · Italian: film · Portuguese: filme · Russian: фильм · Arabic: فيلم · Greek: ταινία
It is commonest in Galician, where filme is the 308th most used word.
Film in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans film/fəlm/ #357
- Arabic فيلم/film/ film, movie #455
- Armenian ֆիլմ/film/ film; motion picture, movie #461
- Basque pelikula/pelikula/ #706
- Bengali মুভি/mubʱi/ movie, film #943
- Bosnian film/ˈfilm/ #627
- Bulgarian филм[fiɫm] film, movie, motion picture #705
- Chinese 一片/i⁵⁵⁻³⁵ pʰi̯ɛn⁵¹/ piece, slice; one film #618
- Croatian film/ˈfilm/ #663
- Czech film[ˈfɪlm] movie, film, motion picture #963
- Danish film/film/ a movie, a film, motion picture #644
- Dutch film/fɪlm/ a film, thin layer or membrane; especially… #613
- English mm/ˌɛˈmɛm/ A film with the content rating M #935
- Esperanto filmo/ˈfilmo/ film, movie, motion picture #792
- Estonian filmi/ˈfilmi/ photographic film #783
- Finnish elokuva/ˈeloˌkuʋɑ/ movie, film, motion picture #2,110
- French film/film/ movie, film #521
- Galician filme/ˈfilme/ film; movie; motion picture #308
- German film/ˈfɪlm/ photographic film #663
- Greek ταινία/teˈnia/ film, movie #608
- Hebrew דוק/dok/ film, sheet #1,169
- Hungarian film[ˈfilm] film, movie, motion picture, picture #1,426
- Indonesian film/ˈfiləm/ #470
- Italian film/ˈfilm/ film, movie #518
- Korean 영화[jʌ̹ŋβwa̠] movie, film #411
- Lithuanian filmas[¹ˈfʲɪlmɐs] film, movie #488
- Macedonian филм[fiɫm] film, strip #665
- Malay filem/filəm/ #590
- Norwegian film/ˈfɪlm/ a film #944
- Persian فیلم[fiːlm] film, movie #701
- Polish film/ˈfilm/ film, movie, motion picture #778
- Portuguese filme/ˈfiw.mi/ film; movie; motion picture #613
- Romanian film/ˈfilm/ movie, film #727
- Russian фильм[fʲilʲm] film, movie #944
- Serbian film/ˈfilm/ #609
- Slovak film/film/ photographic film #475
- Spanish película/peˈlikula/ #635
- Swedish film/ˈfɪlm/ film; a thin layer #914
- Tagalog pelikula/peˈlikula/ film; movie; motion picture #698
- Tamil இயக்குநர்/ɪjɐkːʊnɐɾ/ director, film director, filmmaker #1,197
- Telugu సినిమా/sinimaː/ film, movie #1,907
- Ukrainian фільм[fʲilʲm] film, movie #832
- Urdu فلم/fɪlm/ film, movie #1,308
- Vietnamese phim[fim˧˧] #552
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) 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.