How to say “flat” in 37 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.
- apartamento/apaɾtaˈmento/ Spanish
- נחת/naˈχet/ Hebrew
- բնակարան/bənɑkɑˈɾɑn/ Armenian
- പരന്ന/pɐɾɐn̪n̪ɐ/ Malayalam
- تخت[t̪ʰǽxt̪ʰ] Persian
“flat” in Spanish: apartamento · Portuguese: plano · Turkish: düz
It is commonest in Portuguese, where plano is the 500th most used word.
Flat in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vlak/flak/ flat, level, even #1,092
- Arabic شقة/ʃaq.qa/ apartment, flat #997
- Armenian բնակարան/bənɑkɑˈɾɑn/ flat, apartment #1,584
- Basque laura/ˈlaʊɾa/ flat, level #568
- Bosnian stan/stâːn/ flat, apartment #657
- Bulgarian апартамент[ɐpɐrtɐˈmɛnt] flat, rooms, apartment, suite #1,225
- Catalan maria[məˈɾi.ə] a type of round, flat biscuit #1,779
- Croatian stan/stâːn/ flat, apartment #646
- Czech byt[ˈbɪt] apartment, flat #1,167
- Danish lejlighed[ˈlɑjliˌheðˀ] apartment, flat #900
- Dutch flat/ˈflɛt/ flat, apartment #1,700
- English evening/ˈiv.nɪŋ/ To make flat and level #631
- Esperanto apartamento/apartaˈmento/ apartment, flat #1,789
- Finnish b/ˈbeː/ B flat #2,030
- French table/tabl/ flat surface atop various objects #800
- German plan/plaːn/ planar, flat, level, smooth #626
- Greek διαμέρισμα/ˌðiaˈmerisˌma/ apartment, flat #983
- Hebrew נחת/naˈχet/ A flat, a flat sign #2,411
- Indonesian latar[ˈlatar] level, flat #2,416
- Italian appartamento/ap.par.taˈmen.to/ apartment, flat #992
- Korean 바닥[pa̠da̠k̚] floor; bottom; a flat and usually low surface… #2,105
- Lithuanian butas[ˈbʊtɐs] flat, apartment #1,325
- Macedonian стан[stan] flat, apartment #775
- Malay superman/ˌsupə(r)ˈmen/ lying flat on the stomach when riding the… #1,732
- Malayalam പരന്ന/pɐɾɐn̪n̪ɐ/ flat; having no variations in altitude #2,213
- Norwegian leiligheten/ˈlæ͡ɪlɪˌheːtn̩/ a flat or apartment #1,153
- Persian تخت[t̪ʰǽxt̪ʰ] #583
- Polish mieszkania/mjɛʂˈka.ɲa/ apartment, flat #1,721
- Portuguese plano/ˈplɐ̃.nu/ flat; level #500
- Serbian stan/stâːn/ flat, apartment #680
- Slovak byt/bit/ apartment, flat #465
- Spanish apartamento/apaɾtaˈmento/ flat, apartment #1,237
- Swedish planet/plaˈneːt/ a plane; flat surface #890
- Tagalog latag/ˈlataɡ/ unrolling or spreading on a flat surface #1,376
- Turkish düz/dyz/ flat, smooth, even #1,910
- Ukrainian квартира[kʋɐrˈtɪrɐ] apartment, flat #1,921
- Vietnamese giáng[zaːŋ˧˦] a flat #1,278
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 Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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