How to say “location” in 36 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.
“location” in Chinese: 位置
It is commonest in Chinese, where 位置 is the 257th most used word.
Location in other languages, A to Z
- Arabic مكان/ma.kaːn/ place, location, position #90
- Armenian տեղ/teʁ/ place, location, locality, position #284
- Bengali স্থান/st̪ʰan/ location, place, region #663
- Bulgarian разположение[rɐspoɫoˈʒɛniɛ] location, position #2,438
- Catalan lloc[ˈʎɔk] place; location #161
- Chinese 位置/weɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʈ͡ʂɻ̩⁵¹/ location; position; place #257
- Danish dernede/ˈdeɐ̯ˀˌneːðə/ down there, down in that location #1,146
- Dutch locatie/loːˈkaː.(t)si/ #1,613
- English there/ðɛə(ɹ)/ In or at a place or location that is… #40
- Esperanto loko/ˈloko/ place; location; spot #273
- Estonian koht/koht/ place, location, spot #360
- Finnish paikka/ˈpɑi̯kːɑ/ place, location, spot, site #341
- German ab/ap/ beginning at that time or location; from #179
- Greek τοποθεσία/to.po.θeˈsi.a/ place, location #2,075
- Hebrew אתר/aˈtaʁ/ A site: the location of an object, person,… #1,626
- Hindi स्थान/st̪ʰɑːn/ place, site, location #845
- Hungarian hely[ˈhɛj] place, location #363
- Icelandic stað/staːð/ location, place, spot #614
- Indonesian posisi[poˈsisi] position, place, location #690
- Korean 있다[it̚t͈a̠] to stay, remain in a location #164
- Latvian tur[tùɾ] used to indicate an unnamed location… #51
- Macedonian локација[ɫɔˈkat͡si(j)a] #1,508
- Malay di/di/ Used to indicate location or direction; in,… #8
- Malayalam വിലാസം/ʋilaːsɐm/ address, location #913
- Norwegian inni/ˈɪnɪ/ denotes static location; also an internal… #1,141
- Persian محل[mæ.ɦǽl̥(ː)] place, location #526
- Polish przed/ˈpʂɛt/ denotes location; before, in front of; ahead… #144
- Portuguese sítio/ˈsi.t͡ʃju/ site; location, place #596
- Romanian loc/lok/ place, location #165
- Russian положение[pəɫɐˈʐɛnʲɪje] position, location #1,992
- Slovak mieste/miˈestʲe/ #337
- Slovenian mesto/mèːstɔ/ place, location #186
- Swedish ställe/ˈstɛlɛ/ a place, a location, a position #607
- Tagalog nasa/ˈnasa/ marks the location of something; in, on, at #63
- Telugu చోటు/t͡ɕoːʈu/ a place, location #965
- Turkish vardı/vaɾˈdɯ/ to arrive; to reach a location #144
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 Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.