How to say “jump” in 30 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.
- قفز/qa.fa.za/ Arabic
- 점프[t͡ɕ͈ʌ̹mpʰɯ] Korean
- कूद/kuːd̪/ Hindi
- קפץ/kaˈfat͡s/ Hebrew
- ցատկել/t͡sʰɑtˈkel/ Armenian
- লাফ/laf/ Bengali
“jump” in French: sauter · Italian: saltare · Korean: 점프 · Arabic: قفز · Hindi: कूद
It is commonest in Swedish, where hoppas is the 289th most used word.
Jump in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans spring/ˈsprəŋ/ to leap, jump #825
- Arabic قفز/qa.fa.za/ to jump, to leap #2,291
- Armenian ցատկել/t͡sʰɑtˈkel/ to jump #1,753
- Basque jauzi/ɟau̯s̻i/ to jump #661
- Bengali লাফ/laf/ #631
- Catalan saltar[səlˈta] to jump, to leap #2,005
- Danish hop/hɔp/ to jump, leap, hop #1,334
- Dutch springen/ˈsprɪŋə(n)/ to jump, to leap #1,625
- Estonian hüppama/ˈhypːɑmɑ/ to jump, to leap #2,182
- Finnish hyppää/ˈhypːæː/ to jump, leap #1,982
- French sauter/so.te/ to jump, leap #1,346
- Hebrew קפץ/kaˈfat͡s/ to jump #2,257
- Hindi कूद/kuːd̪/ to jump, leap #1,329
- Icelandic stökkva[ˈstœhkva] to jump, to leap #1,080
- Indonesian lompat/ˈlompat/ to jump #1,956
- Italian saltare/salˈta.re/ to jump, to leap, to spring #1,394
- Korean 점프[t͡ɕ͈ʌ̹mpʰɯ] #2,177
- Lithuanian šok[¹ˈʃoːk] jump, leap #856
- Macedonian скокај[ˈskɔkaj] to jump, spring, leap #2,497
- Malay terjun[t̪ərˈd͡ʒʊn] to leap down; to jump from a higher place to… #1,308
- Norwegian hopp/hɔpː/ to jump #1,121
- Persian پرش[pʰæ.ɹéʃ] #2,130
- Portuguese saltar/sawˈta(ʁ)/ to leap; to jump #2,005
- Slovak skočiť/skɔt͡ʃic/ to jump #1,221
- Slovenian skočiti/skɔt͡ʃìːti/ to jump, to leap #1,325
- Swedish hoppas/ˈhɔpas/ to jump #289
- Tagalog talon/taˈlon/ jump; leap #1,584
- Tamil பாய்/pɑːj/ to leap, jump #514
- Urdu چھلانگ/t͡ʃʰə.lɑːŋɡ/ jump, leap #1,400
- Vietnamese nhảy[ɲaj˧˩] to jump, to leap, to dive #617
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.