How to say “give” in 52 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.
- da/ˈda/ Spanish
- дать[datʲ] Russian
- दिया/d̪ɪ.jɑː/ Hindi
- δώσε/ˈðose/ Greek
- תן/ten/ Hebrew
- მომეცი[mo̞me̞t͡sʰi] Georgian
“give” in Spanish: da · French: donner · German: gibt · Italian: dato · Russian: дать · Hindi: दिया · Turkish: ver · Greek: δώσε
It is commonest in Basque, where eman is the 41st most used word.
Give in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans gee/χɪə/ to give #89
- Albanian jep/jɛp/ to give #175
- Arabic تسمع/ta.sam.ma.ʕa/ to give ear, to listen, to lend an ear #643
- Armenian տուր/tuɾ/ to give #161
- Basque eman/eman/ to give #41
- Bengali দিতে/d̪it̪e/ to give #92
- Bosnian dati/dâti/ to give #407
- Bulgarian дай[daj] to give #220
- Catalan dona[ˈdɔ.nə] to give #152
- Chinese 住手/ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ to stop; to give up #302
- Croatian dati/dâti/ to give #354
- Czech dej[ˈdɛj] to give #284
- Danish giv/ɡiː/ to give #199
- Dutch geef/ɣeːf/ to give #166
- English worry/ˈwəʊ.ɹi/ To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety… #355
- Esperanto donu/ˈdonu/ to give #191
- Estonian anda/ˈɑnd̥ɑ/ to give #407
- Finnish anna/ˈɑnːɑˣ/ to give #89
- French donner/dɔ.ne/ to give, to transfer the possession/holding… #347
- Galician dar/ˈdaɾ/ to give #280
- Georgian მომეცი[mo̞me̞t͡sʰi] to give #407
- German gibt/ɡiːpt/ to give #117
- Greek δώσε/ˈðose/ to give #400
- Hebrew תן/ten/ to give #163
- Hindi दिया/d̪ɪ.jɑː/ to give, grant, award #57
- Hungarian add[ˈɒdː] to give or shift to or near someone or… #369
- Icelandic gefa[ˈcɛːva] to give something #246
- Indonesian membayar/məmˈbajar/ to give money or other compensation to in… #502
- Italian dato/ˈda.to/ to give #293
- Latvian ak/ˈak/ used to give an interjectional flavor to an… #71
- Lithuanian duok[¹ˈduɔk] to give #213
- Macedonian дај[daj] to give #163
- Malay beri/bəˈri/ To give #259
- Malayalam താ/t̪aː/ to give to the 1st or 2nd person #151
- Norwegian gi/jiː/ to give #117
- Persian داد[d̪ɒːd̪̥] to give #160
- Polish daj/ˈdaj/ to give to #177
- Portuguese pagar/paˈɡa(ʁ)/ to give money in exchange for a good or… #560
- Romanian dau/ˈdaw/ to give #233
- Russian дать[datʲ] to give #536
- Serbian dati/dâti/ to give #505
- Slovak daj/daj/ to give, put #157
- Slovenian dajte/ˈdaːjtɛ/ to give #266
- Spanish da/ˈda/ to give, to give out #351
- Swedish ge/jeː/ to give #113
- Tagalog bang/ˈbaŋ/ used with a quality for emphasis and to give… #76
- Tamil தர/t̪ɐɾɐ/ to give #561
- Telugu అందించింది/ˈandinˌcindi/ to give, hand over, to enable, to get #1,110
- Turkish ver/veɾ/ to give #137
- Ukrainian дати[ˈdate] to give #585
- Urdu دینے/d̪eː.neː/ to give, to grant #268
- Vietnamese đưa[ʔɗɨə˧˧] to bring, to take, to give, to hand #149
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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