How to say “hit” 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.
- golpe/ˈɡolpe/ Spanish
- попасть[pɐˈpasʲtʲ] Russian
- 쳐[t͡ɕʰʌ̹] Korean
- چوٹ/t͡ʃoːʈ/ Urdu
“hit” in Spanish: golpe · French: frappé · Korean: 쳐 · Russian: попасть · Turkish: vur
It is commonest in Basque, where jo is the 152nd most used word.
Hit in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans slaan/slɑːn/ hit, slap, beat, strike #435
- Albanian goditje/ɡɔditjɛ/ hit, punch #779
- Arabic وجد/wa.d͡ʒa.da/ to find, to hit upon, to come across #731
- Armenian զարկել/zɑɾˈkel/ to strike, hit, knock, tap #1,484
- Basque jo/ɟo/ to hit, strike, punch #152
- Bengali আঘাত/aɡʱat̪/ blow, strike, hit #302
- Bosnian udarac/ǔdarat͡s/ hit, punch, knock, whack #1,235
- Bulgarian удар[ˈudɐr] hit, blow, clout, stroke, punch #850
- Catalan cop[ˈkɔp] hit, blow, strike #201
- Chinese 打中/tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹/ to hit a target #1,234
- Croatian udarac/ǔdarat͡s/ hit, punch, knock, whack #1,261
- Danish slags/slaːˀɣs/ A hit, punch #294
- Dutch slaan/slaːn/ to hit, to slap #856
- English miss/mɪs/ To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc #276
- Esperanto trafis/ˈtrafis/ to hit, strike #669
- Estonian lüüa/lyːɑ̯/ to hit #898
- Finnish lyö/ˈlyø̯/ to hit, strike, knock #1,718
- French frappé/fʁa.pe/ to hit, to strike, to bash #1,485
- Galician bates/ˈbates/ to hit; to strike #1,380
- German schlagen/ˈʃlaːɡŋ̩/ to beat; to hit; to knock; to strike; to… #1,065
- Greek χτύπησες/ˈxti.pi.ses/ to strike, knock, hit, beat #2,298
- Hebrew מכה/maˈka/ an attack, an assault, a hit, a wound #939
- Hindi मार/mɑːɾ/ to beat, hit, strike, knock #171
- Hungarian ütött[ˈytøtː] to hit, strike, beat, knock, slap, smack #1,983
- Icelandic drepa[ˈtrɛːpa] to beat, hit #171
- Indonesian pukul/ˈpukul/ #699
- Korean 쳐[t͡ɕʰʌ̹] to hit, to beat, to strike, to slap, to pound #792
- Latvian sit/ˈsit/ to hit, to strike, to beat #1,234
- Lithuanian smūgis[²ˈsmuːɡʲɪs] punch, hit #831
- Macedonian удри[ˈudri] to hit, strike, punch #594
- Malay pukul/ˈpukul/ to hit, to strike, to beat #365
- Malayalam ഇടി/iɖi/ punch, hit #1,184
- Norwegian slå/ˈʃloː/ to beat, punch, hit, strike #371
- Persian بزن[bé.zæn] to beat, hit, strike #177
- Romanian lovit[loˈvit] to hit; to strike #662
- Russian попасть[pɐˈpasʲtʲ] to hit #1,218
- Serbian udarac/ǔdarat͡s/ hit, punch, knock, whack #1,247
- Slovak udrel/udrel/ to strike, to hit #1,019
- Slovenian udariti/udàːriti/ to hit, to strike #1,204
- Spanish golpe/ˈɡolpe/ hit, blow, strike #1,251
- Swedish träffa/ˈtrɛfa/ to hit a target #266
- Turkish vur/vuɾ/ to hit, to strike, to pound, to beat #1,110
- Ukrainian удар[ʊˈdar] blow, hit, strike, stroke #1,037
- Urdu چوٹ/t͡ʃoːʈ/ hit; blow; attack #459
- Vietnamese trúng[t͡ɕʊwŋ͡m˧˦] to hit #1,266
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.