How to say “forget” in 46 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.
- olvidado/olbiˈdado/ Spanish
- забыть[zɐˈbɨtʲ] Russian
- भूलना/bʱuːl.nɑː/ Hindi
- שכח/ʃɔˈxaħ/ Hebrew
- மற/mɐrɐ/ Tamil
- മറക്കുക/mɐrɐkkuɡɐ/ Malayalam
“forget” in Spanish: olvidado · French: oublié · Italian: dimenticato · Portuguese: esquece · Russian: забыть · Hindi: भूलना · Turkish: unutma
It is commonest in Romanian, where uite is the 163rd most used word.
Forget in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vergeet/fərˈχɪə̯t/ to forget #170
- Albanian harruar/haruaɾ/ to forget #647
- Arabic أنسى/ʔan.saː/ to cause to forget or neglect #976
- Basque ahaztu/as̻tu/ to forget #174
- Bosnian zaboraviti/zabǒraʋiti/ to forget #977
- Bulgarian забравя[zɐˈbravʲɐ] to forget #1,053
- Catalan oblidat[u.βliˈðat] to forget #1,017
- Chinese 算了/su̯än⁵¹ lə¹/ forget it; forget about it; drop it; leave it… #374
- Croatian zaboraviti/zabǒraʋiti/ to forget #846
- Czech zapomenout[ˈzapomɛnou̯t] to forget #1,451
- Danish glem/ˈɡlɛmˀ/ to forget #479
- Dutch vergeten/vərˈɣeːtə(n)/ to forget #447
- Esperanto forgesis/forˈɡesis/ to forget #344
- Estonian unustama/ˈunustɑmɑ/ to forget #1,980
- Finnish unohda/ˈunohda/ to forget #636
- French oublié/u.bli.je/ to forget #573
- Galician esquecer/eskɛˈθeɾ/ to forget #1,167
- Georgian დავიწყება[d̥ävit͡sʼχʼe̞bä] to make sb forget #1,452
- German dachte/ˈdaxtə/ not to forget; to remember #200
- Greek ξέχασα/ˈkse.xa.sa/ I forget #986
- Hebrew שכח/ʃɔˈxaħ/ to forget #1,075
- Hindi भूलना/bʱuːl.nɑː/ to forget #1,235
- Hungarian felejtsd[ˈfɛlɛjd͡ʒd] to forget #881
- Icelandic gleyma[ˈkleiːma] to forget #512
- Indonesian lupa/ˈlupa/ to forget #411
- Italian dimenticato/di.men.tiˈka.to/ to forget #946
- Latvian aizmirsti/ˈaizmirsti/ to forget #915
- Lithuanian užmiršti[ʊ²ˈʒʲmʲɪrʲˑʃʲtʲɪ] to forget #2,497
- Macedonian заборави[zaˈbɔɾavi] to forget #458
- Malay lupa/ˈlupə/ to forget #418
- Malayalam മറക്കുക/mɐrɐkkuɡɐ/ to forget #1,796
- Norwegian glem/ˈɡlɛm/ to forget #509
- Polish nieważne/ɲɛˈvaʐ.nɛ/ forget it, never mind #729
- Portuguese esquece/isˈkɛ.si/ to forget #987
- Romanian uite[ˈuj.te] to forget #163
- Russian забыть[zɐˈbɨtʲ] to forget #1,274
- Serbian zaboraviti/zabǒraʋiti/ to forget #1,049
- Slovak zabudnúť/zabudnuːc/ to forget #738
- Slovenian pozabiti/pɔzabìːti/ to forget #735
- Spanish olvidado/olbiˈdado/ to forget #1,386
- Swedish glöm/ˈɡlœm/ to forget #556
- Tamil மற/mɐrɐ/ to forget #2,174
- Turkish unutma/unutˈma/ to forget #688
- Ukrainian забути[zɐˈbute] to forget #1,507
- Urdu بھولنا/bʱuːl.nɑː/ to forget #902
- Vietnamese quên[kwen˧˧] to forget #412
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), 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).
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Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.