How to say “hide” 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.
- छिपा/t͡ʃʰɪ.pɑː/ Hindi
- লুকানো/lukano/ Bengali
- மறை/mɐrɐɪ̯/ Tamil
- దాచు/d̪aːt͡ɕu/ Telugu
“hide” in French: cacher · Italian: nascosto · Portuguese: esconder · Hindi: छिपा
It is commonest in Basque, where ezkutatu is the 450th most used word.
Hide in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vel/fɛl/ A skin, a hide #1,075
- Albanian fshehur/fʃɛhuɾ/ to hide #609
- Arabic سير/sajr/ strap, strip of hide, skin thong #1,589
- Basque ezkutatu/es̻kutatu/ to hide, conceal #450
- Bengali লুকানো/lukano/ to hide #1,130
- Bosnian krije/ˈkrije/ to hide, conceal #1,777
- Catalan amagar[ə.məˈɣa] to hide, to conceal #1,457
- Chinese 躲避/tu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ pi⁵¹/ to avoid; to dodge; to hide oneself; to elude #2,208
- Croatian sakriti/sǎkriti/ to hide, conceal #1,702
- Czech schovat[ˈsxovat] to hide #2,250
- Danish gemmer[ˈɡ̊ɛmɐ] to hide, conceal #1,255
- Dutch verbergen/vərˈbɛrɣə(n)/ to hide #1,379
- Esperanto kaŝis/ˈkaʃis/ to hide, to conceal #1,077
- French cacher/ka.ʃe/ to hide #1,040
- German verstecken/fɛɐ̯ˈʃtɛkən/ hide and seek #1,284
- Hindi छिपा/t͡ʃʰɪ.pɑː/ to hide, be hidden #1,248
- Icelandic fela[ˈfɛːla] to hide, to conceal #750
- Indonesian menyembunyikan/məˌɲɛmbuˈɲikan/ to hide #1,056
- Italian nascosto/nasˈkos.to/ to hide, to conceal #1,326
- Latvian slēpj/ˈsleːpj/ to hide, to conceal so that others cannot see… #2,498
- Lithuanian slėptis[²ˈsʲlʲeːpʲtʲɪs] to hide #1,614
- Macedonian крие[ˈkri(j)ɛ] to hide, conceal #1,155
- Malay simpan[sim.pän] to hide #592
- Norwegian gjemme/²jɛmːə/ to conceal or hide #1,485
- Polish ukryć/ˈu.krɘt͡ɕ/ to hide, to conceal #2,118
- Portuguese esconder/is.kõˈde(ʁ)/ to hide #1,142
- Romanian ascuns[asˈkuns] to hide, to conceal #953
- Russian закрыть[zɐˈkrɨtʲ] to cover, to hide #2,442
- Serbian krije/ˈkrije/ to hide, conceal #1,695
- Slovenian skriti/skrìːti/ to hide #697
- Swedish gömmer/ˈjœmɛr/ to hide, to conceal #1,460
- Tagalog itago/ʔiˈtaɡoʔ/ to hide; to conceal #1,011
- Tamil மறை/mɐrɐɪ̯/ to hide, be hidden #1,045
- Telugu దాచు/d̪aːt͡ɕu/ to hide, conceal #1,144
- Vietnamese trốn[t͡ɕon˧˦] to hide oneself #566
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.