How to say “hundred” in 50 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.
- сто[sto] Russian
- مئة/mi.ʔa/ Arabic
- 백[pɛk̚] Korean
- εκατό/e.kaˈto/ Greek
- מאה/ˈme(ʔ)a/ Hebrew
- հարյուր/hɑˈɾjuɾ/ Armenian
“hundred” in French: cent · Italian: cento · Portuguese: centenas · Korean: 백 · Russian: сто · Arabic: مئة · Turkish: yüz · Greek: εκατό
It is commonest in Bosnian, where sto is the 130th most used word.
Hundred in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans honderd[ɦɔn.dərt] #1,859
- Albanian njëqind/ɲəcind/ one hundred #1,701
- Arabic مئة/mi.ʔa/ #1,240
- Armenian հարյուր/hɑˈɾjuɾ/ #364
- Basque ehun/ehun/ #684
- Bengali লাখ/lakʰ/ hundred thousand, lakh, lac #701
- Bosnian sto/stôː/ #130
- Bulgarian сто[stɔ] #1,566
- Catalan cent/ˈsent/ #850
- Chinese 一百/i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ one hundred; a hundred #1,364
- Croatian sto/stôː/ #347
- Czech sto[ˈsto] #1,562
- Danish hundrede/hunrədə/ #1,621
- Dutch honderd/ˈɦɔn.dərt/ #1,583
- English century/ˈsɛn.(t)ʃ(ə.)ɹi/ A period of one hundred consecutive years;… #1,878
- Esperanto cent/t͡sent/ #1,203
- Estonian sada/ˈsɑd̥ɑ/ #1,207
- Finnish sata/ˈsɑtɑ/ #1,897
- French cent/sɑ̃/ #1,772
- Galician cen/ˈθɛŋ/ one hundred; 100 #1,334
- Greek εκατό/e.kaˈto/ hundred, 100 #1,551
- Hebrew מאה/ˈme(ʔ)a/ hundred, one hundred #879
- Hindi लाख/lɑːkʰ/ one hundred thousand, lakh #761
- Hungarian száz[ˈsaːz] #1,469
- Indonesian d/ˈde/ five hundred #934
- Italian cento/ˈt͡ʃɛn.to/ hundred, one hundred #1,817
- Korean 백[pɛk̚] #978
- Latvian simts/ˈsimts/ #1,822
- Lithuanian šimtas/ʃɪmtɐs/ #1,637
- Macedonian сто[stɔ] #1,385
- Malay seratus/səˈratus/ one hundred #1,603
- Malayalam നൂറ്/n̪uːrɨ/ #800
- Norwegian hundre/ˈhʉndrə/ #1,054
- Persian صد[sæd̪̥] #649
- Polish sto/ˈstɔ/ #2,147
- Portuguese centenas/ˌsẽˈtenɐs/ #1,926
- Romanian sute/ˈsu.te/ a hundred #1,189
- Russian сто[sto] #1,514
- Serbian sto/stôː/ #311
- Slovak sto/stɔ/ #876
- Slovenian sto/stóː/ #461
- Spanish cien/ˈθjen/ one hundred #1,832
- Swedish hundra/ˈhɵndra/ hundred; 100 in arabic numerals #1,416
- Tagalog daan/daˈʔan/ #238
- Tamil கணம்/kɐɳɐm/ one hundred billion #452
- Telugu శతకము/ˈɕataˌkamu/ #1,732
- Turkish yüz/jyz/ #597
- Ukrainian сто[stɔ] #847
- Urdu صد/səd̪/ #1,071
- Vietnamese trăm[t͡ɕam˧˧] #1,146
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).
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