How to say “mine” 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.
- mío/ˈmio/ Spanish
- 광산[ˈkwa̠(ː)ŋsʰa̠n] Korean
- खान/kʰɑːn/ Hindi
- δικό/ðiˈko/ Greek
- খনি/kʰoni/ Bengali
- ഖനി/k(ʰ)ɐni/ Malayalam
“mine” in Spanish: mío · French: mien · German: meine · Korean: 광산 · Hindi: खान · Greek: δικό
It is commonest in Galician, where miña is the 44th most used word.
Mine in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans myne/ˈməinə/ #281
- Albanian im[im] my, of mine #74
- Basque meatze/meat͡s̻e/ #2,336
- Bengali খনি/kʰoni/ #1,161
- Bosnian moj/môːj/ my, mine #67
- Bulgarian моята[ˈmɔjɐtɐ] my, mine #242
- Catalan meu[ˈmew] my, mine #42
- Chinese 布雷/pu⁵¹ leɪ̯³⁵/ to set a mine #2,034
- Croatian moj/môːj/ my, mine #70
- Czech můj[ˈmuːj] my, mine #77
- Danish min/miːn/ mine 1.st person singular possessive pronoun #39
- Esperanto mia/ˈmia/ my, mine #26
- French mien/mjɛ̃/ mine, my own #1,223
- Galician miña/ˈmiɲa/ mine, my #44
- Georgian ჩემი[t͡ʃʰe̞mi] my, mine, singular first person possessive… #21
- German meine/ˈmaɪ̯nə/ #62
- Greek δικό/ðiˈko/ mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs #227
- Hindi खान/kʰɑːn/ mine, quarry #1,042
- Hungarian enyém[ˈɛɲeːm] #419
- Icelandic minn[mɪn(ː)] my, mine #49
- Indonesian tambang/ˈtambaŋ/ mine: an excavation from which ore or solid… #1,877
- Italian mio/ˈmi.o/ my; of mine #40
- Korean 광산[ˈkwa̠(ː)ŋsʰa̠n] #2,080
- Latvian mans/ˈmans/ my, mine #70
- Lithuanian mano[ˈmɐnoː] my, mine #19
- Macedonian мој[mɔj] my, mine #189
- Malay lombong/ˈlomboŋ/ mine, place from which ore is extracted #1,694
- Malayalam ഖനി/k(ʰ)ɐni/ mine; an excavation from which ores and… #2,241
- Norwegian min/miːn/ my, mine #45
- Persian معدن[mæʔ.d̪ǽn] mine, quarry #1,635
- Polish mój/ˈmuj/ first person possessive pronoun; my, mine #75
- Romanian mea[me̯a] #59
- Russian мой[moj] my, mine #77
- Serbian moj/môːj/ my, mine #75
- Slovak môj/mu̯ɔj/ my, mine #60
- Slovenian rudnik/rúːdnik/ #1,385
- Spanish mío/ˈmio/ mine; of mine #223
- Tagalog ko/ko/ my; mine #6
- Tamil கண்ணிவெடி/kɐɳːɪʋɛɖiː/ land mine, sea mine #2,065
- Telugu గని/ˈɡani/ #241
- Ukrainian моя[mɔˈja] my, mine #81
- Urdu میری/meː.ɾiː/ first-person singular possessive pronoun: mine #54
- Vietnamese mìn[min˨˩] mine; dynamite #2,366
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), 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.