How to say “friday” in 34 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.
- viernes/ˈbjeɾnes/ Spanish
- 星期五/ɕiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵ u²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ Chinese
- 금요일[kɯmjoiɭ] Korean
- παρασκευή/pa.ɾa.sceˈvi/ Greek
- শুক্রবার/ʃukɾobaɾ/ Bengali
- வெள்ளிக்கிழமை/ʋɛɭːɪkːɪɻɐmɐɪ̯/ Tamil
“friday” in Spanish: viernes · French: vendredi · German: freitag · Chinese: 星期五 · Korean: 금요일 · Turkish: cuma · Greek: παρασκευή
It is commonest in Slovenian, where petek is the 590th most used word.
Friday in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vrydag/ˈfrəi.daχ/ #1,373
- Basque ostiral/os̺tiɾal/ #1,429
- Bengali শুক্রবার/ʃukɾobaɾ/ #1,419
- Bosnian petak/pětaːk/ #1,352
- Bulgarian петък[ˈpɛtɐk] #1,244
- Catalan divendres[diˈβɛn.dɾəs] #1,588
- Chinese 星期五/ɕiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵ u²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ #1,416
- Croatian petak/pětaːk/ #1,360
- Czech pátek[ˈpaːtɛk] #1,597
- Danish fredag/ˈfreːˀda/ #1,547
- Dutch vrijdag/ˈvrɛi̯ˌdɑx/ #1,730
- English friday/ˈfɹaɪ.deɪ/ On Friday #1,693
- Estonian reede/ˈreːd̥e/ #1,574
- French vendredi/vɑ̃.dʁə.di/ #1,659
- Galician venres/ˈbɛnres/ #1,821
- German freitag/ˈfʁaɪ̯taːk/ #1,976
- Greek παρασκευή/pa.ɾa.sceˈvi/ #1,503
- Korean 금요일[kɯmjoiɭ] #1,289
- Lithuanian penktadienis[pʲɛŋk²ˈtɑːdʲiɛnʲɪs] #2,432
- Macedonian петок[ˈpɛtɔk] #1,124
- Malayalam വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച/ʋeɭɭijaːɻt͡ʃɐ/ #937
- Norwegian fredag/ˈfreːˌdɑːɡ/ #1,426
- Persian جمعه[d͡ʒom.ʔé] #1,269
- Polish piątek/ˈpjɔn.tɛk/ #2,204
- Romanian vineri/ˈvinerʲ/ #1,486
- Serbian petak/pětaːk/ #1,399
- Slovak piatok/pɪ̯atɔk/ #814
- Slovenian petek/pèːtək/ #590
- Spanish viernes/ˈbjeɾnes/ #1,670
- Swedish fredag/ˈfreːdɑːɡ/ #1,953
- Tagalog biyernes/biˈeɾnes/ #859
- Tamil வெள்ளிக்கிழமை/ʋɛɭːɪkːɪɻɐmɐɪ̯/ #964
- Turkish cuma/d͡ʒu.mɑː/ #1,219
- Urdu جمعہ/d͡ʒʊm.ʔɑ(ː)/ #1,531
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.