How to say “go” in 53 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.
- vamos/ˈbamos/ Spanish
- идти[ɪˈtʲːi] Russian
- गया/ɡə.jɑː/ Hindi
- πάμε/ˈpame/ Greek
- წადი[t͡sʼädi] Georgian
- գնա/ɡəˈna/ Armenian
“go” in Spanish: vamos · French: va · German: geht · Italian: va · Portuguese: foi · Russian: идти · Hindi: गया · Turkish: git
It is commonest in Catalan, where va is the 18th most used word.
Go in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans gaan/ˈχɑːn/ to go #21
- Albanian shkojmë/ʃkɔjmə/ to go, pass #102
- Arabic هيا/haj.jaː/ come on!; let's; let's go! #58
- Armenian գնա/ɡəˈna/ to go #127
- Basque joan/ɟoan/ to go #28
- Bengali যাও/d͡ʒao̯/ to go #50
- Bosnian hajde/xǎjde/ let's go #88
- Bulgarian отида[oˈtidɐ] to go, to go away #347
- Catalan va[ˈba] to go #18
- Chinese 回家/xu̯eɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/ to return home; to go home; to come home #80
- Croatian hajde/xǎjde/ let's go #112
- Czech jít[ˈjiːt] to walk, go #119
- Danish gå[ˈɡ̊ɔˀ] to go #79
- Dutch ga/ɣaː/ to go, to move from one place to another #62
- English think/ˈθɪŋk/ To ponder, to go over in one's mind #67
- Esperanto iru/ˈiru/ to go #75
- Estonian minema/ˈminemɑ/ to go #109
- Finnish mennä/ˈmenːæˣ/ to go #119
- French va/va/ to go #55
- Galician foi/foi/ to go #55
- Georgian წადი[t͡sʼädi] to go #204
- German geht/ɡeːt/ to go, to walk #81
- Greek πάμε/ˈpame/ to go, attend #93
- Hebrew קרה/qaˈra.ja/ To happen, occur, go on #122
- Hindi गया/ɡə.jɑː/ to go, move, travel, leave, depart; to… #33
- Hungarian menj[ˈmɛɲː] to go, travel #152
- Icelandic fer/fɛːr/ to go, to leave #84
- Indonesian pergi/pərˈɡi/ to go #36
- Italian va/ˈva/ to go #63
- Korean 든[tɯn] to come in, go in, get in, enter #670
- Latvian aiziet/ˈaiziet/ to leave, to go away, to escape #100
- Lithuanian eik[²ˈɛɪˑk] to go #134
- Macedonian ајде[ˈajdɛ] let's go #55
- Malay pergi[pə(r).ˈɡi] To go #32
- Malayalam പോകാം/poːɡaːm/ let's go #59
- Norwegian går/ˈɡoːr/ To walk, go #65
- Persian رفت[ɹǽft̪ʰ] to go #242
- Polish iść/ˈiɕt͡ɕ/ to go; to walk #216
- Portuguese foi/ˈfoj/ to go #34
- Romanian intrat[inˈtrat] to enter, go in #564
- Russian идти[ɪˈtʲːi] to go #326
- Serbian hajde/xǎjde/ let's go #91
- Slovak ísť/iːsc/ to walk, to go #77
- Slovenian iti/ìːti/ to go #163
- Spanish vamos/ˈbamos/ to go #47
- Swedish far/fɑːr/ to go, to travel #232
- Tagalog umalis/ʔumaˈlis/ to go away #79
- Tamil விடு/ʋɪɖɯ/ to let go #236
- Telugu వెళ్ళండి/ˈʋeɭɭanɖi/ #80
- Turkish git/ˈɡit/ to go #158
- Ukrainian йти[i̯tɪ] to go, to walk #307
- Urdu گیا/ɡə.jɑː/ to go, to leave #38
- Vietnamese ra[zaː˧˧] to go out, to leave #37
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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