How to say “lot” in 43 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.
- كثيرا/ka.θiː.ran/ Arabic
- הרבה/(h)aʁˈbe/ Hebrew
- ഒത്തിരി/ot̪t̪iɾi/ Malayalam
“lot” in Arabic: كثيرا
It is commonest in Hebrew, where הרבה is the 79th most used word.
Lot in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans veel/fɪəl/ much, a lot #232
- Albanian ndjeshëm/ndjeʃəm/ a lot, lots #2,007
- Arabic كثيرا/ka.θiː.ran/ a lot; many; much #308
- Basque asko/as̺ko/ much, a lot #31
- Bengali বহুত/bohut̪/ many, much, a lot #1,565
- Bosnian mnogo/m̩nôɡo/ many, a lot, lots #159
- Bulgarian много[ˈmnɔɡo] many, a lot of #36
- Catalan força[ˈfɔr.sə] much, a lot of, very, quite #418
- Chinese 很多/xən²¹⁴⁻²¹ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵/ many; much; a lot #51
- Croatian puno/pûno/ much, a lot, lots #154
- Czech spousta[ˈspou̯sta] a lot of, lots of, plenty of #857
- Dutch veel/veːl/ many, much, a lot of #112
- English miles/maɪlz/ much; a lot #865
- Esperanto multe/ˈmulte/ a lot #149
- Estonian palju/ˈpɑlju/ many, a lot #69
- Finnish paljon/ˈpɑljon/ a lot, plenty, much #87
- French beaucoup/bo.ku/ much, very much, a lot #167
- Galician moito/ˈmojto/ much, a lot, lots #103
- German viel/fiːl/ much, a lot #127
- Greek πολλά/poˈla/ much, many, a lot of #194
- Hebrew הרבה/(h)aʁˈbe/ a lot #79
- Hindi ज़्यादा/ˈzjaːd̪a/ much, a lot #862
- Hungarian sokan[ˈʃokɒn] many, a lot of people #1,207
- Icelandic fleiri/ˈfleiːrɪ/ many, a lot of #274
- Italian molto/ˈmol.to/ much, very much, a lot #77
- Korean 많이[ˈma̠(ː)ni] many, much, a lot, plenty, in abundance #109
- Latvian daudz[ˈdāū̯d͡z] much, a lot; adverbial form of daudzi #75
- Lithuanian daug[²ˈdɒʊˑk] much, a lot #85
- Macedonian многу[ˈmnɔɡu] very, a lot #39
- Malay banyak/ˈbaɲak/ many, much, a lot #89
- Malayalam ഒത്തിരി/ot̪t̪iɾi/ a lot, much #771
- Persian بخش[bæxʃ] lot; part; portion; section #326
- Polish dużo/ˈdu.ʐɔ/ much, a lot #219
- Portuguese muito/ˈmũj̃.tu/ much; many; a lot of; lots of #33
- Romanian mulțime/mulˈt͡si.me/ lot, ton, large quantity #1,743
- Russian гораздо[ɡɐˈrazdə] much, far, by far, a lot, considerably, quite #1,037
- Serbian mnogo/m̩nôɡo/ many, a lot, lots #129
- Spanish mucho/ˈmut͡ʃo/ much, a lot of #103
- Swedish mycket/ˈmʏˌkɛ(t)/ much, a lot #84
- Tamil நிறைய/nɪrɐɪ̯jɐ/ many, a lot of #101
- Ukrainian багато[bɐˈɦatɔ] much, a lot #144
- Urdu زیادہ/zjɑː.d̪ɑ(ː)/ more, much, a lot, excessively #47
- Vietnamese nhiều[ɲiəw˨˩] many, much; a lot #107
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).
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