How to say “learn” in 41 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.
- aprender/apɾenˈdeɾ/ Spanish
- تعلم/ta.ʕal.la.ma/ Arabic
- सीखा/siː.kʰɑː/ Hindi
- μάθω/ˈma.θo/ Greek
- למד/laːˈmad/ Hebrew
- ისწავლო[ist͡sʼävɫo̞] Georgian
“learn” in Spanish: aprender · French: appris · German: lernen · Italian: imparato · Portuguese: aprender · Arabic: تعلم · Hindi: सीखा · Turkish: öğrenmek
It is commonest in Arabic, where تعلم is the 107th most used word.
Learn in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans leer/lɪər/ To learn #210
- Arabic تعلم/ta.ʕal.la.ma/ to learn #107
- Basque ikasi/ikas̺i/ to learn #293
- Bengali শিখতে/ʃikʰt̪e/ to learn #669
- Bosnian uči/ˈutʃɪ/ to learn, study #2,164
- Bulgarian науча[nɐˈut͡ʃɐ] to learn #1,291
- Catalan aprendre[əˈpɛn.dɾə] to learn #871
- Chinese 了解/li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ to understand; to comprehend; to learn; to… #98
- Croatian učiti/ǔt͡ʃiti/ to learn, study #2,003
- Dutch geleerd/ɣəˈleːrt/ to learn, to study #895
- English discovered/dɪsˈkʌvɚd/ To find or learn something for the first time #1,736
- Esperanto lernis/ˈlernis/ to learn; gain or acquire knowledge; study #739
- Estonian õppima/ˈɤpːimɑ/ to learn, study #1,091
- Finnish oppia/ˈopːiɑˣ/ to learn #1,628
- French appris/a.pʁi/ to learn #634
- Galician aprender/apɾenˈdeɾ/ to learn #743
- Georgian ისწავლო[ist͡sʼävɫo̞] to learn, study #1,156
- German lernen/ˈlɛrnən/ to learn, to acquire knowledge #678
- Greek μάθω/ˈma.θo/ to learn, acquire knowledge #591
- Hebrew למד/laːˈmad/ to learn, to study #1,845
- Hindi सीखा/siː.kʰɑː/ to learn #991
- Hungarian tanultam[ˈtɒnultɒm] to study, to learn #2,179
- Icelandic læra[ˈlaiːra] to learn, to study #495
- Indonesian belajar/bəˈlad͡ʒar/ to study; to learn #409
- Italian imparato/impaˈɾato/ to learn #1,277
- Latvian mācīties[ˈmâːt͡sîːtiɛ̂s] to learn, to study #2,119
- Lithuanian mokytis[¹ˈmoːkʲiːtʲɪs] to learn #911
- Macedonian научи[ˈnaut͡ʃi] to learn, teach #603
- Malay belajar/bəˈlad͡ʒa(r)/ to study; to learn #371
- Malayalam പഠിക്കുക/pɐʈ(ʰ)ikkjuɡɐ/ to learn #1,620
- Persian آموز[ʔɒː.múːz] to learn #2,041
- Polish poznać/ˈpɔ.znat͡ɕ/ to get to know; to learn #551
- Portuguese aprender/a.pɾẽˈde(ʁ)/ to learn, to acquire knowledge #981
- Russian заниматься[zənʲɪˈmat͡sːə] to study, to learn #1,083
- Serbian uči/ˈutʃɪ/ to learn, study #1,944
- Spanish aprender/apɾenˈdeɾ/ to learn #1,202
- Tagalog matuto/maˈtuto/ to be able to learn #2,218
- Turkish öğrenmek/øː.ɾenˈmec/ to learn, study, master #753
- Ukrainian дізнатися[dʲizˈnatesʲɐ] to learn, to get to know, to find out #1,046
- Urdu سیکھنا/siːkʰ.nɑː/ to learn #1,775
- Vietnamese học[hawk͡p̚˧˨ʔ] to study; to learn #219
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 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.