How to say “get” in 51 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.
- पाया/pɑː.jɑː/ Hindi
- পা/pa/ Bengali
- കിട്ടുക/kiʈʈuɡɐ/ Malayalam
“get” in Hindi: पाया
It is commonest in Swedish, where får is the 54th most used word.
Get in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans word/vɔrt/ to become; to get #53
- Albanian hyrë/hyɾə/ to enter, to go in, to get in #826
- Arabic إليك/ʔilajka/ get away! #204
- Armenian կորած/koˈɾɑt͡s/ to be lost; to get lost, be mislaid; to… #1,046
- Basque haserretu/as̺eretu/ to rage, get angry #523
- Bengali পা/pa/ to get, to receive #329
- Bosnian dobio/ˈdobɪo/ to receive, get, obtain, acquire #373
- Bulgarian получа[poˈɫut͡ʃɐ] to get, to receive #983
- Catalan aconseguir[ə.kun.səˈɣi] to arrive, to get #480
- Chinese 得到/tɤ³⁵ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/ to obtain; to acquire; to get; to win; to… #50
- Croatian dobio/ˈdobɪo/ to receive, get, obtain, acquire #306
- Czech dostat[ˈdostat] to get #272
- Danish får/fɒːˀ/ to get #102
- Dutch worden/ˈʋɔrdə(n)/ to become, to get, to grow, to turn #121
- English take/ˈteɪ̯k/ To get into one's hands, possession, or… #90
- Esperanto prenu/ˈprenu/ to take, get, seize, lay hold of, pick up #204
- Estonian saa/sɑː/ to get, to receive #61
- Finnish saa/ˈsɑː/ to get, receive #85
- French ai/e/ to have; to own; to possess; to get #28
- Galician conseguir/konseˈɡiɾ/ to get, obtain #720
- Georgian გრძელდება[ɡ̊ɾd͡ze̞lde̞bä] to get longer, to lengthen #464
- German bekommen/bəˈkɔmən/ to receive; to get #370
- Greek πάρει/ˈpari/ to take, get, move #232
- Hebrew בחייך/beχaˈjeχa/ come on, get out of town, expression of… #258
- Hindi पाया/pɑː.jɑː/ to get, receive #497
- Hungarian lett[ˈlɛtː] to become, get, turn into #202
- Icelandic fá[ˈfauː] to receive, to get #71
- Indonesian keluar/kəˈluar/ to go out, to get out, to exit #96
- Italian ricevuto/ri.t͡ʃeˈvu.to/ to receive, get, have, be given, take #627
- Korean 든[tɯn] to come in, go in, get in, enter #670
- Latvian dabūt[dabûːt] to get, to obtain #444
- Lithuanian supratau[sʊprɐ²ˈtɒʊˑ] to perceive, to get it; to understand #190
- Macedonian добие[ˈdɔbi(j)ɛ] to get, acquire #586
- Malay bangun/ˈbaŋon/ to wake up; to get up #321
- Malayalam കിട്ടുക/kiʈʈuɡɐ/ to get #903
- Norwegian får/foːr/ to get; to have; to obtain; to receive #80
- Polish poznać/ˈpɔ.znat͡ɕ/ to get to know; to learn #551
- Portuguese ficar/fiˈka(ʁ)/ to become; to get; to end up #144
- Romanian primit[priˈmit] to receive, to get #416
- Russian получить[pəɫʊˈt͡ɕitʲ] to receive, to get #573
- Serbian dobio/ˈdobɪo/ to receive, get, obtain, acquire #380
- Slovak dostať/dɔstac/ to get, to receive #170
- Slovenian dobiti/dɔbìːti/ to receive, get, obtain, acquire #333
- Spanish volver/bolˈbeɾ/ to return, to revert, to get back #300
- Swedish får/foːr/ to get, to receive #54
- Tagalog makakuha/makaˈkuha/ to be able to get something #225
- Tamil எழுந்திரு/ɛɻʊnd̪ɪɾɯ/ to rise up, stand up, get up #324
- Turkish anlıyorum/anˈɫɯjoɾum/ To understand, to comprehend, to get #358
- Ukrainian вийти[ˈʋɪi̯te] to go out, to come out, to get out, to walk… #893
- Urdu لئے/lɪ.jeː/ to take, get #22
- Vietnamese nhận[ɲən˧˨ʔ] to receive; to get; to obtain #174
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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