How to say “garden” in 35 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.
- jardín/xaɾˈdin/ Spanish
- حديقة/ħa.diː.qa/ Arabic
- 정원[t͡ɕʌ̹ŋwʌ̹n] Korean
- κήπο/ˈcipo/ Greek
- বাগান/baɡan/ Bengali
- தோட்டம்/t̪oːʈːɐm/ Tamil
“garden” in Spanish: jardín · French: jardin · German: garten · Italian: giardino · Portuguese: jardim · Korean: 정원 · Arabic: حديقة · Greek: κήπο
It is commonest in Afrikaans, where tuin is the 547th most used word.
Garden in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans tuin/tœi̯n/ A garden, yard #547
- Albanian kopsht/kɔpʃt/ #2,291
- Arabic حديقة/ħa.diː.qa/ #1,140
- Basque lorategi/loɾateɡi/ #1,246
- Bengali বাগান/baɡan/ garden, orchard #1,420
- Bulgarian градина[ɡrɐˈdinɐ] #1,963
- Catalan jardí[ʒərˈdi] #1,931
- Croatian vrt/ʋr̩̂t/ #2,266
- Danish haven/ˈhaːvən/ #2,348
- Dutch tuin/tœy̯n/ a garden, yard #1,725
- Esperanto ĝardeno/d͡ʒarˈdeno/ #719
- Estonian aias/ɑi̯ɑ̯s/ #2,023
- French jardin/ʒaʁ.dɛ̃/ #1,708
- Galician xardín/ʃaɾˈdiŋ/ #1,093
- German garten/ˈɡaʁ.tən/ garden, yard #1,784
- Greek κήπο/ˈcipo/ #1,774
- Indonesian kebun/kəˈbun/ garden, orchard, estate, plantation #1,788
- Italian giardino/d͡ʒarˈdi.no/ #1,939
- Korean 정원[t͡ɕʌ̹ŋwʌ̹n] garden, vegetable garden, yard #2,442
- Lithuanian sodas[²ˈsoːdɐs] #2,198
- Macedonian градина[ˈɡradina] #2,153
- Malay taman/ˈtaman/ park, garden #983
- Malayalam തോട്ടം/t̪oːʈʈɐm/ #1,320
- Norwegian hagen/ˈhɑːɡən/ a garden #1,981
- Persian باغ[bɒːɢ̥] garden, orchard, bagh #1,358
- Portuguese jardim/ʒaʁˈd͡ʒĩ/ #1,904
- Romanian parc/ˈpark/ park; garden; terrace #1,764
- Slovak zoo/ˈzoo/ zoological garden #1,561
- Slovenian vrt/ʋə́rt/ #818
- Spanish jardín/xaɾˈdin/ #1,764
- Tagalog halamanan/ˌhalamaˈnan/ #2,079
- Tamil தோட்டம்/t̪oːʈːɐm/ garden, orchard, plantation #2,130
- Ukrainian город[ˈɦɔrɔd] vegetable garden #955
- Urdu باغ/bɑːɣ/ #1,169
- Vietnamese vườn[vɨən˨˩] #1,546
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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