How to say “home” in 44 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.
- hogar/oˈɡaɾ/ Spanish
- домой[dɐˈmoj] Russian
- 집[t͡ɕip̚] Korean
- הביתה/haˈbajta/ Hebrew
- বাসা/baʃa/ Bengali
- బస/basa/ Telugu
“home” in Spanish: hogar · German: heim · Italian: nazionale · Portuguese: lar · Korean: 집 · Russian: домой
It is commonest in Icelandic, where heim is the 117th most used word.
Home in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans tuis/tœi̯s/ home, at home #440
- Arabic تدير/ta.daj.ja.ra/ to take as home #2,155
- Bengali বাসা/baʃa/ home, house #843
- Bosnian kući/kût͡ɕi/ home, at home #190
- Bulgarian дома[doˈma] #315
- Catalan llar[ˈʎar] #1,377
- Chinese 回家/xu̯eɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/ to return home; to go home; to come home #80
- Croatian kući/kût͡ɕi/ home, at home #182
- Czech doma[ˈdoma] at home #382
- Danish hjem[ˈjɛmˀ] #157
- Dutch thuis/tœy̯s/ at home #286
- Esperanto hejmen/ˈhei̯men/ to one’s home; home #297
- Estonian koju/ˈkoju/ #218
- Finnish kotiin/ˈkotɪːn/ #183
- French chez/ʃe/ to, at, in or into the home, office, etc. of #164
- Georgian სახლში[säχlʃi] at home, home #112
- German heim/haɪ̯m/ home, to the house; always as a direction,… #1,226
- Greek σπίτι/ˈspiti/ house, home #94
- Hebrew הביתה/haˈbajta/ Home, homeward, to one's home #182
- Hindi घर/ɡʱəɾ/ house, home; dwelling #107
- Hungarian haza[ˈhɒzɒ] home, homeward #298
- Icelandic heim[ˈheiːm] #117
- Indonesian pulang/ˈpulaŋ/ to return, to go home, to go back #224
- Italian nazionale/nat.t͡sjoˈna.le/ home; national, domestic #1,840
- Korean 집[t͡ɕip̚] home, house #256
- Lithuanian namo/nɐˈmoː/ home, homewards #152
- Macedonian дома[ˈdɔma] at home #131
- Malay rumah/ˈrumah/ home; house #119
- Malayalam വീട്/ʋiːɖɨ/ house, home #145
- Norwegian hjem/ˈjɛm/ #162
- Portuguese lar/ˈlaʁ/ #1,853
- Romanian acasă/aˈkasə/ at home #180
- Russian домой[dɐˈmoj] home, homewards, to the house #220
- Serbian kući/kût͡ɕi/ home, at home #174
- Slovak domov/dɔmɔv/ home, homewards #149
- Slovenian domov/dɔmɔ̀ːʋ/ home, homewards #140
- Spanish hogar/oˈɡaɾ/ #1,130
- Swedish hem/hɛm/ #152
- Tagalog umuwi/ʔumuˈiʔ/ to go home; to return #595
- Tamil இல்/ɪl/ house, home #355
- Telugu బస/basa/ home, abode, lodging #862
- Ukrainian додому[dɔˈdɔmʊ] home, homewards #242
- Urdu گھر/ɡʱəɾ/ house, home #94
- Vietnamese nhà[ɲaː˨˩] house; home; dwelling #86
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.