How to say “flee” in 31 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.
- huir/ˈw̝iɾ/ Spanish
- هرب/haraba/ Arabic
- भागने/bʱɑːɡ.neː/ Hindi
- ξέφυγε/ˈkse.fi.ʝe/ Greek
- נמלט/nimˈlat/ Hebrew
- পালানো/palano/ Bengali
“flee” in Spanish: huir · German: fliehen · Arabic: هرب · Hindi: भागने · Greek: ξέφυγε
It is commonest in Croatian, where pobjeći is the 888th most used word.
Flee in other languages, A to Z
- Arabic هرب/haraba/ to flee, to escape #920
- Bengali পালানো/palano/ to flee, to run away, to escape #1,635
- Bosnian pobjeći/pǒbjet͡ɕi/ to flee, run away #1,367
- Bulgarian бягам[ˈbʲa̟ɡɐm] to run away, to flee, to escape #2,290
- Catalan fugir[fuˈʒi] to flee #1,009
- Chinese 逃跑/tʰɑʊ̯³⁵ pʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ to run away; to flee; to escape #530
- Croatian pobjeći/pǒbjet͡ɕi/ to flee, run away #888
- Czech utéct[ˈutɛːt͡st] to run away, to flee #1,250
- Danish flygte[ˈfløɡ̊d̥ə] to run away, flee #1,311
- Dutch vlucht/vlʏxt/ to flee #960
- Esperanto fuĝi/ˈfud͡ʒi/ to flee #1,457
- Estonian põgenema/ˈpɤɡ̊enemɑ/ to flee, to escape, to abscond #1,677
- Finnish paeta/ˈpɑetɑˣ/ to flee, run away, escape #1,688
- Galician fuxir/fuˈʃiɾ/ to flee #1,166
- German fliehen/ˈfliː.ən/ to flee; to escape #2,276
- Greek ξέφυγε/ˈkse.fi.ʝe/ to flee, to get away, to escape #2,296
- Hebrew נמלט/nimˈlat/ to flee, escape; be a fugitive #1,990
- Hindi भागने/bʱɑːɡ.neː/ to flee; run away; escape #2,103
- Italian scappare/skapˈpa.re/ to run away, flee, escape, scarper or… #1,026
- Latvian bēgt[ˈbɛ̂ːkt] to flee, run away, escape #1,627
- Norwegian flykte/ˈflʏktə/ to flee, run away #1,656
- Polish uciec/ˈu.t͡ɕɛt͡s/ to run away, to flee #1,077
- Portuguese fugir/fuˈʒi(ʁ)/ to run away; to flee #713
- Serbian pobeći/pǒbet͡ɕi/ to flee, run away #1,859
- Slovak ujsť/ujsc/ to flee, to escape, to run away #1,012
- Slovenian bežati/bɛʒàːti/ to flee, run away #1,216
- Spanish huir/ˈw̝iɾ/ to flee, to run away #2,311
- Swedish fly/ˈflyː/ to flee, to run away, to escape #1,002
- Tamil ஓடு/oːɖɯ/ to run, flee, fasten #756
- Telugu పారిపోవు/ˈpaːriˌpoːʋu/ to flee, run away, escape #1,133
- Ukrainian втекти[ʍtekˈtɪ] to flee, to get away, to run away, to run off #1,351
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.