How to say “five” 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.
- cinco/ˈθinko/ Spanish
- пять[pʲætʲ] Russian
- خمسة/xam.sa/ Arabic
- 오[o̞(ː)] Korean
- पाँच/pɑ̃ːt͡ʃ/ Hindi
- חמישה/χa.miˈʃaː/ Hebrew
“five” in Spanish: cinco · French: cinq · German: fünf · Italian: cinque · Portuguese: cinco · Korean: 오 · Russian: пять · Arabic: خمسة
It is commonest in Korean, where 오 is the 59th most used word.
Five in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vyf/fəif/ #480
- Albanian pesë/pɛs(ə)/ #334
- Arabic خمسة/xam.sa/ #312
- Armenian հինգ/hinɡ/ #1,662
- Basque bost/bos̺t/ #189
- Bengali পাঁচ/pãt͡ʃ/ #429
- Bosnian pet/pêːt/ #348
- Bulgarian пет[pɛt] #410
- Catalan cinc[ˈsiŋ] #351
- Chinese 五百/u²¹⁴⁻³⁵ paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ five hundred #2,420
- Croatian pet/pêːt/ #368
- Czech pět[ˈpjɛt] #435
- Danish fem[ˈfɛmˀ] #297
- Dutch vijf/vɛi̯f/ #365
- Esperanto kvin/kvin/ #318
- Estonian viis/ˈviːs/ #309
- Finnish viisi/ˈʋiːsi/ #412
- French cinq/sɛ̃k/ #494
- Galician cinco/ˈθiŋko/ #321
- German fünf/fʏmf/ #484
- Greek ε/ˈe/ The number five in Greek numerals #210
- Hebrew חמישה/χa.miˈʃaː/ #812
- Hindi पाँच/pɑ̃ːt͡ʃ/ #1,075
- Hungarian öt[ˈøt] #398
- Icelandic fimm[ˈfɪm(ː)] #183
- Indonesian lima/ˈlima/ #429
- Italian cinque/ˈt͡ʃin.kwe/ #501
- Korean 오[o̞(ː)] #59
- Latvian pieci[piɛ̯tsi] #662
- Lithuanian penki[pʲɛŋʲˈkʲɪ] #583
- Macedonian пет[pɛt] #334
- Malay lima/ˈlima/ #389
- Malayalam അഞ്ച്/ɐɲt͡ʃɨ/ #242
- Norwegian fem/fɛm/ #284
- Persian پنج[pʰænd͡ʒ̥] #338
- Polish pięć/ˈpjɛɲt͡ɕ/ #564
- Portuguese cinco/ˈsĩ.ku/ #389
- Romanian cinci/t͡ʃint͡ʃʲ/ #421
- Russian пять[pʲætʲ] #466
- Serbian pet/pêːt/ #359
- Slovak päť/pæc/ #368
- Slovenian pet/péːt/ #216
- Spanish cinco/ˈθinko/ #373
- Swedish fem/fɛm/ #306
- Tagalog lima/liˈma/ #1,063
- Tamil ஐந்து/ɐɪ̯nd̪ɯ/ #146
- Turkish beş/beʃ/ #299
- Urdu پانچ/pɑ̃ːt͡ʃ/ #201
- Vietnamese năm[nam˧˧] #168
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.