How to say “fourth” in 30 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.
- cuarto/ˈkwaɾto/ Spanish
- רביעי/ʁviˈʔi/ Hebrew
- მეოთხე[me̞o̞tʰχe̞] Georgian
- നാലാം/n̪aːlaːm/ Malayalam
- چهارم[t͡ʃʰæ.ɦɒː.ɹom] Persian
“fourth” in Spanish: cuarto · Italian: quarto · Portuguese: quarto · Turkish: dördüncü
It is commonest in Portuguese, where quarto is the 360th most used word.
Fourth in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vierde/ˈfiːrdə/ #1,225
- Arabic ربع/rubuʕ/ one fourth; one quarter #1,993
- Armenian քառորդ/kʰɑˈroɾtʰ/ quarter, fourth, quadrant #973
- Basque laugarren/lau̯ɡaren/ #1,009
- Bengali শাওন/ʃaon/ Shraavana, the fourth month in the Bengali… #2,015
- Bosnian četvrti/t͡ʃětʋr̩̄tiː/ #2,447
- Catalan quart[ˈkwart] #2,161
- Croatian četvrti/t͡ʃětʋr̩̄tiː/ #2,138
- Danish fjerde[ˈfjɛːɐ] #2,090
- English winter/ˈwɪntə/ Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons,… #1,900
- Esperanto kvara/ˈkvara/ #1,069
- Estonian neljas/ˈneljɑs/ #1,512
- Georgian მეოთხე[me̞o̞tʰχe̞] #1,540
- Hebrew רביעי/ʁviˈʔi/ #1,538
- Hungarian negyedik[ˈnɛɟɛdik] #2,403
- Indonesian keempat/kəˈəmpat/ #2,248
- Italian quarto/ˈkwar.to/ #2,231
- Lithuanian ketvirtas[kʲɛ²ˈtʲʋʲɪrˑtɐs] #1,646
- Malay suku/su.ku/ quarter, fourth, ¹⁄₄ #1,331
- Malayalam നാലാം/n̪aːlaːm/ fourth, 4th #980
- Norwegian fjerde/ˈfjæːrə/ #2,092
- Persian چهارم[t͡ʃʰæ.ɦɒː.ɹom] #1,335
- Portuguese quarto/ˈkwaʁ.tu/ #360
- Serbian četvrti/t͡ʃětʋr̩̄tiː/ #2,185
- Slovak štvrť/ʃtvr̩c/ quarter, fourth #1,474
- Spanish cuarto/ˈkwaɾto/ #622
- Swedish fjärde/fjɛːrdɛ/ #2,069
- Telugu పావులు/ˈpaːʋulu/ fourth part, quarter #1,837
- Turkish dördüncü/døɾ.dynˈd͡ʒy/ #1,796
- Urdu چوتھا/t͡ʃɔː.t̪ʰɑː/ #1,675
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) and Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
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