How to say “leave” 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.
- уйти[ʊjˈtʲi] Russian
- ترك/ta.ra.ka/ Arabic
- छुट्टी/t͡ʃʰʊʈ.ʈiː/ Hindi
- φύγω/ˈfiɣo/ Greek
- עזב/aˈzav/ Hebrew
- ছুটি/t͡ʃʰuʈi/ Bengali
“leave” in German: hinterlassen · Russian: уйти · Arabic: ترك · Hindi: छुट्टी · Turkish: çıktı · Greek: φύγω
It is commonest in Basque, where utzi is the 42nd most used word.
Leave in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans los/ˈlɔs/ to leave, abandon #144
- Albanian lë[lə] to leave, to leave behind #312
- Arabic ترك/ta.ra.ka/ to leave, to relinquish #402
- Armenian ել/jel/ to go out; to leave; to exit #552
- Basque utzi/ut͡s̻i/ to leave #42
- Bengali ছুটি/t͡ʃʰuʈi/ #742
- Bosnian otišao/ˈotɪˌʃɐo/ to leave, part, depart #374
- Bulgarian оставя[oˈstavʲɐ] to leave, abandon #531
- Catalan deixa/ˈdeʃə/ to leave away #203
- Chinese 留下/li̯oʊ̯³⁵ ɕi̯ä⁵¹/ to leave behind; to leave #165
- Croatian otići/otǐːt͡ɕi/ to leave, part, depart #284
- Czech nech[ˈnɛx] to leave #304
- Danish forlade/fɒˈlaðˀə/ to leave #763
- Dutch laat/laːt/ to leave, to cause to remain in the same… #84
- English close/ˈkloʊ̯z/ So as to leave or create little distance or… #424
- Esperanto lasu/ˈlasu/ to leave #156
- Estonian lahkuma/ˈlɑhkumɑ/ to leave #768
- Finnish lähteä/ˈlæhteæˣ/ to leave, go, go away, set off, take off,… #268
- French partir/paʁ.tiʁ/ to go away, leave, depart #249
- Galician parte/ˈpaɾte/ to go away, to leave, to depart #192
- Georgian გამოდის[ɡ̊ämo̞dis] to come out, to leave #851
- German hinterlassen/hɪntɐˈlasn̩/ to leave, to leave behind #1,700
- Greek φύγω/ˈfiɣo/ to leave, depart, go #374
- Hebrew עזב/aˈzav/ to leave, leave behind, depart #833
- Hindi छुट्टी/t͡ʃʰʊʈ.ʈiː/ leave, absence from work #1,025
- Icelandic fer/fɛːr/ to go, to leave #84
- Indonesian parkir/ˈparkir/ to park, halt and leave a vehicle in a spot #1,663
- Italian parte/ˈpar.te/ to depart; to leave; to set forth #145
- Latvian aiziet/ˈaiziet/ to leave, to go away, to escape #100
- Lithuanian palikti[pɐlʲɪk.tʲɪ] to leave #376
- Macedonian остави[ˈɔstavi] to leave, abandon, relinquish #232
- Malay cuti/ˈt͡ʃuti/ leave, furlough, holiday, vacation, break #1,228
- Malayalam വിട്/ʋiʈɨ/ to leave something, release hold #169
- Norwegian forlate/fɔˈɭɑːtə/ to leave, depart, abandon #819
- Polish zostaw/ˈzɔs.taf/ to leave #589
- Portuguese sair/saˈi(ʁ)/ to exit; to leave; to get out #207
- Romanian plecat/pleˈkat/ to leave, depart #282
- Russian уйти[ʊjˈtʲi] to leave, to depart, to go #520
- Serbian otišao/ˈotɪˌʃɐo/ to leave, part, depart #354
- Slovak odísť/ɔdiːsc/ leave, depart #295
- Slovenian pustiti/pustìːti/ to leave #393
- Spanish salir/saˈliɾ/ to go out, to leave, to depart, to head out #264
- Swedish lämna/ˈlɛmna/ to leave; to not take away with oneself but… #276
- Tagalog lumabas/lumaˈbas/ to leave; to exit; to go out #259
- Tamil புறப்படு/pʊrɐpːɐɖɯ/ to depart, leave, set out for a destination #1,209
- Telugu సెలవు/selaʋu/ leave, permission #574
- Turkish çıktı/t͡ʃɯkˈtɯ/ to leave, exit, quit, get out #409
- Ukrainian залишити[zɐˈɫɪʃete] to leave #841
- Urdu گیا/ɡə.jɑː/ to go, to leave #38
- Vietnamese ra[zaː˧˧] to go out, to leave #37
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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