How to say “flight” 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.
- طيران/tˤajaraːn/ Arabic
- 航班/xɑŋ³⁵ pän⁵⁵/ Chinese
- 비행[piɦɛŋ] Korean
- उड़ान/ʊ.ɽɑːn/ Hindi
- πτήση/ˈptisi/ Greek
- טיסה/tiˈsa/ Hebrew
“flight” in French: vol · German: flug · Italian: fuga · Chinese: 航班 · Korean: 비행 · Arabic: طيران · Hindi: उड़ान · Greek: πτήση
It is commonest in Slovenian, where let is the 118th most used word.
Flight in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vlug/ˈflœx/ flight, escape #529
- Arabic طيران/tˤajaraːn/ #2,396
- Basque ihes/ihes̺/ flight, escape #217
- Bosnian let/lêːt/ #1,215
- Bulgarian полет[ˈpɔlɛt] #1,526
- Chinese 航班/xɑŋ³⁵ pän⁵⁵/ #1,124
- Croatian let/lêːt/ #1,222
- Czech lety[ˈlɛtɪ] #655
- Danish flugt/flokt/ escape, flight #2,128
- Esperanto flugo/ˈfluɡo/ #967
- Estonian lend/lend̥/ #1,474
- Finnish pakoon/ˈpakoːn/ flight, fleeing #1,696
- French vol/vɔl/ #1,097
- German flug/fluːk/ #1,746
- Greek πτήση/ˈptisi/ flight, the act of flying #1,338
- Hebrew טיסה/tiˈsa/ #1,295
- Hindi उड़ान/ʊ.ɽɑːn/ #710
- Icelandic flug[ˈflʏːɣ] flight, flying #1,054
- Indonesian penerbangan/pənərˈbaŋan/ #1,194
- Italian fuga/ˈfu.ɡa/ flight, escape #1,952
- Korean 비행[piɦɛŋ] flight; flying #1,071
- Macedonian лет[lɛt] #1,286
- Malayalam ഫ്ലൈറ്റ്/fɭäitɨ̆/ #1,073
- Persian پرواز[pʰæɹ.vɒːz] #422
- Polish lot/ˈlɔt/ #2,399
- Portuguese fuga/ˈfu.ɡɐ/ escape, flight #1,737
- Romanian zbor/ˈzbor/ #1,193
- Serbian let/lêːt/ #1,181
- Slovenian let/lɛ́t/ #118
- Ukrainian рейс[rɛi̯s] #2,233
- Urdu پرواز/pəɾ.ʋɑːz/ #349
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 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.