How to say “front” in 47 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.
- წინა[t͡sʼinä] Georgian
- ముందు/mun̪d̪u/ Telugu
- سامنا/sɑːm.nɑː/ Urdu
“front” in Portuguese: frente
It is commonest in Telugu, where ముందు is the 69th most used word.
Front in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans voordeur/ˈfʊə̯r.dɪør/ front door #1,468
- Albanian përballë/pəɾˈbaɫə/ in front, opposite, facing, against #1,394
- Arabic أمام/ʔa.maː.ma/ before, in front of, in the presence of #340
- Armenian առջև/ɑrˈt͡ʃʰev/ before, in front of in space #636
- Basque aurrean/aʊˈreˌan/ in front of #200
- Bengali সামনে/ʃamne/ in front of #173
- Bosnian ispred/îspred/ in front of, before #570
- Bulgarian пред[prɛt] in front of, before #239
- Catalan davant[dəˈβan] ahead; in front #347
- Chinese 之前/ʈ͡ʂɻ̩⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/ before; in front of; ahead of #57
- Croatian ispred/îspred/ in front of, before #612
- Danish foran[ˈfɒːˈanˀ] ahead, in front #547
- English ahead/əˈhɛd/ At or towards the front; in the direction one… #547
- Esperanto antaŭe/anˈtau̯e/ in front, at the front #281
- Estonian eest/eːst/ from the front #79
- Finnish edessä/ˈedesːæ/ in front of, ahead of #798
- Galician ante/ˈante/ before, in front of #726
- Georgian წინა[t͡sʼinä] #760
- German vor/foːr/ in front of, ahead of #92
- Greek μπροστά/brosˈta/ in front, in front of #366
- Hindi सामने/sɑːm.neː/ opposite; in front, facing #426
- Hungarian előtt[ˈɛløːtː] in front of, ahead of, before #243
- Icelandic framan[ˈfraːman] on the front side #433
- Indonesian muka/ˈmuka/ the front part of the head of a human or… #1,595
- Italian davanti/daˈvan.ti/ at the front; in front #595
- Korean 앞[a̠p̚] fore, front #1,241
- Latvian priekšā/ˈpriekʃaː/ in front of #323
- Lithuanian priešais[¹ˈpʲrʲiɛʃɐɪs] opposite, in front of, across from #848
- Macedonian напред[ˈnaprɛt] forward, ahead, in front #402
- Malay depan/dɘpan/ #280
- Malayalam മുന്നില്/munnilɨ/ in front, before #224
- Norwegian foran/ˈfɔɾɑn/ ahead, in front #536
- Persian جلوی[d͡ʒe.lów.je] in front of #739
- Polish przed/ˈpʂɛt/ denotes location; before, in front of; ahead… #144
- Portuguese frente/ˈfɾẽ.t͡ʃi/ #292
- Romanian înaintea/ˌɨnaˈintea/ in front of #1,367
- Russian перед[ˈpʲerʲɪt] in front of, before #279
- Serbian ispred/îspred/ in front of, before #565
- Slovenian pred/prɛt/ before, in front of #82
- Spanish delante/deˈlante/ in front of, before #922
- Swedish före/²føːrɛ/ in front of; ahead of #545
- Tagalog harap/haˈɾap/ front; forefront #337
- Tamil முன்பு/mʊnbɯ/ before, in front of #175
- Telugu ముందు/mun̪d̪u/ #69
- Turkish önünde/ønynˈde/ in front of #580
- Ukrainian перед[ˈpɛred] just before, in front of #184
- Urdu سامنا/sɑːm.nɑː/ front; facade #410
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).
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