How to say “inside” in 52 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.
- dentro/ˈdentɾo/ Spanish
- внутри[vnʊˈtrʲi] Russian
- داخل/daː.xa.la/ Arabic
- בתוך/ˈbtoχ/ Hebrew
- შიგნით[ʃiɡnitʰ] Georgian
- ভিতরে/bʱit̪ɔɾe/ Bengali
“inside” in Spanish: dentro · Italian: dentro · Russian: внутри · Arabic: داخل
It is commonest in Malay, where dalam is the 28th most used word.
Inside in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans in/ən/ in; inside; within #15
- Albanian brenda/bɾɛnda/ inside, in #143
- Arabic داخل/daː.xa.la/ #276
- Armenian մեջ/met͡ʃʰ/ in, inside #71
- Basque barnean/barnean/ #946
- Bengali ভিতরে/bʱit̪ɔɾe/ #241
- Bosnian unutra/ǔnuːtra/ inside, indoors, in #278
- Bulgarian в/f/ going inside or within the limits of, into,… #13
- Catalan dins[ˈdins] in, within, inside #248
- Chinese 出來/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ laɪ̯³⁵/ to go from inside to outside; to come out #519
- Croatian unutra/ǔnuːtra/ inside, indoors, in #318
- Czech dovnitř[ˈdovɲɪtr̝̊] #494
- Danish i[i] in, inside #7
- Dutch in/ɪn/ in, inside #13
- English in/ɪn/ Contained by; inside #13
- Esperanto en/en/ in, within, inside #11
- Estonian sees/seːs/ inside, in #418
- Finnish sisään/ˈsisæːn/ into, in, inside, inwards #232
- French dans/dɑ̃/ in, inside #33
- Galician dentro/ˈdentɾo/ #275
- Georgian შიგნით[ʃiɡnitʰ] #494
- German in/ʔɪn/ in, inside, within, at #16
- Greek μέσα/ˈme.sa/ in, inside #92
- Hebrew בתוך/ˈbtoχ/ inside, within, in the middle of #348
- Hindi में/mẽː/ in, inside of #6
- Hungarian ki[ˈki] out, not inside, from the inside, in an… #27
- Icelandic inn/ɪn/ in, inside #70
- Indonesian dalam/ˈdalam/ inside, in, within #42
- Italian dentro/ˈden.tro/ inside; indoors #247
- Korean 속[sʰo̞(ː)k̚] the interior or inside, especially that which… #728
- Latvian iekšā/ˈiekʃaː/ in, inside #163
- Macedonian внатре[ˈvnatrɛ] #227
- Malay dalam/dalam/ inside, in, within #28
- Malayalam അകത്ത്/ɐɡɐt̪t̪ɨ/ #293
- Norwegian i/iː/ in, inside of #8
- Persian در[d̪æɹ] at, in, inside, within #10
- Polish wewnątrz/ˈvɛ.vnɔntʂ/ #1,742
- Portuguese em/ẽj̃/ in; inside; within #20
- Romanian înăuntru/ˌɨnəˈuntru/ inside, within, in #608
- Russian внутри[vnʊˈtrʲi] in or into the interior; inside #689
- Serbian unutra/ǔnuːtra/ inside, indoors, in #309
- Slovak dnu/dnu/ #296
- Slovenian v/ʋ/ in, inside, at #5
- Spanish dentro/ˈdentɾo/ #318
- Swedish i/ˈiː/ in; located inside #12
- Tagalog loob/loˈʔob/ inside; interior; inner part #163
- Tamil உள்ள/ʊɭːɐ/ interior, inside #92
- Telugu లో/loː/ inner, internal, inside #25
- Turkish içinde/i.t͡ʃinˈde/ in, within, inside #163
- Ukrainian всередині[ʍseˈrɛdenʲi] inside, within #905
- Urdu اندر/ən.d̪əɾ/ #149
- Vietnamese trong[t͡ɕawŋ͡m˧˧] in; inside; within #45
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