How to say “fourth” in 30 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.
It is commonest in Portuguese, where quarto is the 360th most used word.
- Afrikaans vierde #1,225
- Arabic ربع one fourth; one quarter #1,993
- Armenian քառորդ quarter, fourth, quadrant #973
- Basque laugarren #1,009
- Bengali শাওন Shraavana, the fourth month in the Bengali… #2,015
- Bosnian četvrti #2,447
- Catalan quart #2,161
- Croatian četvrti #2,138
- Danish fjerde #2,090
- English winter Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons,… #1,900
- Esperanto kvara #1,069
- Estonian neljas #1,512
- Georgian მეოთხე #1,540
- Hebrew רביעי #1,538
- Hungarian negyedik #2,403
- Indonesian keempat #2,248
- Italian quarto #2,231
- Lithuanian ketvirtas #1,646
- Malay suku quarter, fourth, ¹⁄₄ #1,331
- Malayalam നാലാം fourth, 4th #980
- Norwegian fjerde #2,092
- Persian چهارم #1,335
- Portuguese quarto #360
- Serbian četvrti #2,185
- Slovak štvrť quarter, fourth #1,474
- Spanish cuarto #622
- Swedish fjärde #2,069
- Telugu పావులు fourth part, quarter #1,837
- Turkish dördüncü #1,796
- Urdu چوتھا #1,675
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.