How to say “hear” in 45 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.
- oye/ˈoʝe/ Spanish
- услышать[ʊsˈɫɨʂətʲ] Russian
- άκουσα/ˈakusa/ Greek
- լսել/ləˈsel/ Armenian
- শোনো/ʃono/ Bengali
- കേട്ടു/keːʈʈu/ Malayalam
“hear” in Spanish: oye · French: entendu · Portuguese: ouvir · Russian: услышать · Greek: άκουσα
It is commonest in Basque, where entzun is the 63rd most used word.
Hear in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans hoor/ɦʊə̯r/ To hear #136
- Albanian dëgjuar/dəɟuaɾ/ to hear #264
- Arabic أسمع/ʔasmaʕa/ to make hear, to let hear, to give someone… #369
- Armenian լսել/ləˈsel/ to hear #230
- Basque entzun/ent͡s̻un/ to hear, listen #63
- Bengali শোনো/ʃono/ to hear, to listen to #364
- Bosnian čuo/ˈtʃuo/ to hear #330
- Bulgarian чуя[ˈt͡ʃu̟jɐ] to hear #790
- Croatian čuo/ˈtʃuo/ to hear #305
- Czech slyšet[ˈslɪʃɛt] to hear #734
- Danish hør/hœr/ to hear #197
- Dutch hoor/ɦoːr/ to hear #276
- Esperanto aŭdis/ˈau̯dis/ to hear #266
- Estonian kuulma/ˈkuːlmɑ/ to hear #1,763
- Finnish kuulin/ˈkuːlɪn/ to hear #443
- French entendu/ɑ̃.tɑ̃.dy/ to hear #291
- Galician sinto/ˈsinto/ to hear #463
- German gehört/ɡəˈhøːɐ̯t/ to hear through the ear #206
- Greek άκουσα/ˈakusa/ to hear #550
- Hindi सुनो/sʊ.noː/ to listen, hear #261
- Hungarian hallottam[ˈhɒlːotːɒm] to hear #284
- Icelandic heyra[ˈheiːra] to hear #253
- Indonesian dengarkan/dəˈŋarkan/ to listen, to hear carefully #376
- Latvian dzirdēju/ˈdzirdeːju/ to hear #496
- Lithuanian išgirsti/ɪʃɡɪrstɪ/ to hear #689
- Macedonian слуша[ˈsɫuʃa] to listen, hear #912
- Malay dengar/dəˈŋar/ to hear; to listen #96
- Malayalam കേട്ടു/keːʈʈu/ to hear #231
- Norwegian hør/høːr/ to hear #212
- Persian شنیدم/ʃuːniːdæm/ to hear #806
- Polish słyszałem/swɘˈʂa.wɛm/ to hear #542
- Portuguese ouvir/o(w)ˈvi(ʁ)/ to hear #335
- Romanian auzit[a.uˈzit] to hear #190
- Russian услышать[ʊsˈɫɨʂətʲ] to hear #1,151
- Serbian čuo/ˈtʃuo/ to hear #301
- Slovak počul/pɔt͡ʃul/ to hear #248
- Slovenian slišati/slìːʃati/ to hear #321
- Spanish oye/ˈoʝe/ to hear #205
- Swedish hör/ˈhøːr/ to hear #199
- Tagalog marinig/maɾiˈniɡ/ to be able to hear #1,031
- Tamil கேள்/keːɭ/ to listen to, hear #201
- Telugu విన్నావు/ʋinːaːʋu/ to hear #1,202
- Turkish dinle/dinˈle/ to listen, hear #235
- Ukrainian чути[ˈt͡ʃute] to hear #995
- Urdu سننا/sʊn.nɑː/ to listen, to hear #946
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.