How to say “hotel” in 43 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.
- hotel/oˈtel/ Spanish
- отель[ɐˈtɛlʲ] Russian
- 酒店/t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ti̯ɛn⁵¹/ Chinese
- 호텔[ɸʷo̞tʰe̞ɭ] Korean
- होटल/ɦoː.ʈəl/ Hindi
- ξενοδοχείο/ksenoðoˈçio/ Greek
“hotel” in Spanish: hotel · German: hotel · Italian: albergo · Portuguese: hotel · Chinese: 酒店 · Korean: 호텔 · Russian: отель · Hindi: होटल
It is commonest in Slovenian, where hotela is the 182nd most used word.
Hotel in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian hotel/hɔtɛl/ #816
- Arabic فندق/fun.duq/ inn, hotel #705
- Bengali হোটেল/hoʈel/ #854
- Bosnian hotel/xǒtel/ #1,101
- Bulgarian хотел[xoˈtɛɫ] #1,055
- Catalan hotel[uˈtɛl] #924
- Chinese 酒店/t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ti̯ɛn⁵¹/ hotel; inn #424
- Croatian hotel/xǒtel/ #1,134
- Czech hotelu[ˈɦotɛlu] #1,038
- Danish hotel/hoˈtɛlˀ/ #1,243
- Dutch hotel/ɦoːˈtɛl/ #848
- Esperanto hotelo/hoˈtelo/ #734
- Estonian hotell/hoˈtelʲː/ #1,704
- Galician hotel/ɔˈtɛl/ #666
- Georgian სასტუმრო[sästʼumɾo̞] #994
- German hotel/hoˈtɛl/ #916
- Greek ξενοδοχείο/ksenoðoˈçio/ #809
- Hebrew מלון/maˈlon/ #1,171
- Hindi होटल/ɦoː.ʈəl/ #823
- Hungarian hotel[ˈhotɛl] #2,424
- Indonesian hotel/ˈhotɛl/ hotel, an establishment that provides… #809
- Italian albergo/alˈbɛr.ɡo/ hotel, inn #2,175
- Korean 호텔[ɸʷo̞tʰe̞ɭ] #757
- Latvian viesnīcā/ˈʋiesniːt͡saː/ #1,338
- Lithuanian viešbutis[²ˈʋʲiɛʒbʊtʲɪs] #1,290
- Macedonian хотел[ˈxɔtɛɫ] #1,095
- Malay hotel/ˈhotəl/ #699
- Malayalam ഹോട്ടൽ/hoːʈːɐl/ #883
- Norwegian hotellet/hʊˈtɛlə/ a hotel #1,321
- Persian هتل[ho.t̪ʰel̥] #619
- Polish hotelu/xɔˈtɛ.lu/ #1,116
- Portuguese hotel/oˈtɛw/ #825
- Romanian hotel/hoˈtel/ #930
- Russian отель[ɐˈtɛlʲ] #2,022
- Serbian hotel/xǒtel/ #1,047
- Slovak hotel/ɦɔtel/ #955
- Slovenian hotela/xɔˈteːla/ #182
- Spanish hotel/oˈtel/ #754
- Swedish hotellet/ˈhuːtɛlɛt/ a hotel #1,490
- Tagalog hotel/hoˈtel/ #1,079
- Turkish otel/oˈtel/ #1,260
- Ukrainian готель[ɦɔˈtɛlʲ] #1,423
- Urdu ہوٹل/ɦoː.ʈəl/ #564
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) 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.