How to say “make” in 53 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.
- сделать[ˈzʲdʲeɫətʲ] Russian
- बनाने/bə.nɑː.neː/ Hindi
- έφτιαξα/ˈe.ftça.ksa/ Greek
- აკეთებ[äkʼe̞tʰe̞pʰ] Georgian
- ساخت[sɒːxt̪ʰ] Persian
“make” in German: machen · Russian: сделать · Hindi: बनाने · Greek: έφτιαξα
It is commonest in Catalan, where fer is the 43rd most used word.
Make in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans laat/lɑːt/ to cause to, to make; forms a causative phrase #57
- Albanian bëj/ˈbəj/ to do, make #73
- Arabic تقول/taqawwala/ to fabricate, to make up #140
- Armenian հայտնել/hɑjtˈnel/ to make public, known #1,161
- Basque egin/eɡin/ to do, make, create, produce #5
- Bengali দেখানো/d̪æ.kʰa.no/ to show; to make see #846
- Bosnian učiniti/ut͡ʃǐniti/ to do, make #400
- Bulgarian направя[nɐˈpravʲɐ] to do, make #160
- Catalan fer[ˈfe] to make, produce #43
- Chinese 安排/ˀän⁵⁵ pʰaɪ̯³⁵/ to arrange; to plan; to make arrangements #258
- Croatian učiniti/ut͡ʃǐniti/ to do, make #192
- Czech těší[ˈcɛʃiː] to please, to make happy #1,323
- Danish laver/ˈlaːvɐ/ to make, create, construct, produce #143
- Dutch maken/ˈmaːkə(n)/ to make, create, prepare #129
- English please/pliz/ Used to make a polite request #121
- Esperanto igis/ˈiɡis/ to cause to be, to cause to do, to make #1,217
- Estonian lõi/lɤi̯/ to create, to make #866
- Finnish käyttää/ˈkæy̯tːæːˣ/ to use, make use of‚ employ, apply, utilize,… #408
- French assis/a.si/ to sit down, to seat, make sit #1,084
- Galician facer/faˈθeɾ/ to do, make #53
- Georgian აკეთებ[äkʼe̞tʰe̞pʰ] to make #215
- German machen/ˈmaxən/ to make, to produce, to create #97
- Greek έφτιαξα/ˈe.ftça.ksa/ to make, build, create, construct #1,692
- Hebrew משתמש/miʃtameʃ/ to use, to make use of #826
- Hindi बनाने/bə.nɑː.neː/ to make, create, produce #338
- Hungarian kérem[ˈkeːrɛm] to ask, to make a request #139
- Icelandic hlakka/ˈl̥ahka/ to make the sound of an eagle #1,063
- Indonesian bercanda[bərˈt͡ʃanda] to joke, to tell a joke, to make a joke #498
- Italian farla/ˈfar.la/ to make a fool of #1,181
- Korean 해라[hɛɾa̠] do, make, act #610
- Latvian nedari/ˈnedari/ to not do, to not make; negative form of darīt #687
- Lithuanian darai[dɐ²ˈrɐɪˑ] to make #157
- Macedonian направи[ˈnapravi] to do, make #118
- Malay buat/buat/ to make; to create #44
- Malayalam വീഴ്ത്തുക/ʋiːɻt̪t̪uɡɐ/ to make something fall #1,310
- Norwegian gal/ˈɡɑːl/ to make a sound characteristic of a rooster;… #520
- Persian ساخت[sɒːxt̪ʰ] to make #956
- Polish zrobić/ˈzrɔ.bit͡ɕ/ to make #101
- Portuguese usar/uˈza(ʁ)/ to use; to utilise; to employ; to make use of #385
- Romanian imi[imʲ] to dirty, besmirch, make dirty with mud or… #354
- Russian сделать[ˈzʲdʲeɫətʲ] to make, to do #129
- Serbian učiniti/ut͡ʃǐniti/ to do, make #492
- Slovak robiť/rɔbic/ to make #124
- Slovenian narediti/narɛdìːti/ to make; to render #224
- Spanish alegro/aˈleɡɾo/ to make happy #951
- Swedish låt/ˈloːt/ to make sound #142
- Tagalog gawin/ɡaˈwin/ to create; to make #90
- Tamil செய்ய/tʃɛjːɐ/ to do, perform, create, make, accomplish #26
- Telugu చేస్తున్నాను/ˈceːstunˌnaːnu/ to do, make, perform #47
- Turkish ederim/edeˈɾim/ to do; to make #98
- Ukrainian зробити[zrɔˈbɪte] to do, to make #157
- Urdu بنانا/bə.nɑː.nɑː/ to make, create, produce #1,370
- Vietnamese khiến[xiən˧˦] to cause; to make #461
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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