How to say “minute” in 47 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.
- minutos/miˈnutos/ Spanish
- دقيقة/da.qiː.qa/ Arabic
- 分鐘/fən⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/ Chinese
- मिनट/mɪ.nəʈ/ Hindi
- λεπτό/leˈpto/ Greek
- דקה/daˈka/ Hebrew
“minute” in Spanish: minutos · French: minutes · German: minuten · Portuguese: minutos · Chinese: 分鐘 · Arabic: دقيقة · Hindi: मिनट · Turkish: dakika
It is commonest in Urdu, where منٹ is the 148th most used word.
Minute in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans minute/məˈnytə/ #369
- Albanian minuta/minuta/ #232
- Arabic دقيقة/da.qiː.qa/ #197
- Armenian րոպե/ɾoˈpe/ #687
- Basque minutu/miˈɲuˌtu/ #209
- Bengali মিনিট/miniʈ/ #206
- Bosnian minuta/minǔːta/ #287
- Bulgarian минута[miˈnutɐ] #778
- Catalan minuts/miˈnuts/ #408
- Chinese 分鐘/fən⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/ #1,797
- Croatian minuta/minǔːta/ #337
- Czech minut[ˈmɪnut] #406
- Danish minutter/miˈnudɐ/ #319
- Dutch minuten/ˈminytən/ #377
- Esperanto minutoj/miˈnutoɪ/ #439
- Estonian minuti/ˈminuti/ #585
- Finnish minuuttia/ˈminuːˌtːia/ #508
- French minutes/mi.nyt/ #380
- Galician minuto/miˈnuto/ minute; 60 seconds #719
- Georgian წუთი[t͡sʼutʰi] #1,046
- German minuten/miˈnuːtn̩/ #389
- Greek λεπτό/leˈpto/ #321
- Hebrew דקה/daˈka/ #640
- Hindi मिनट/mɪ.nəʈ/ #256
- Hungarian perc[ˈpɛrt͡s] #388
- Icelandic bíddu/ˈpitʏ/ wait a minute #113
- Italian minuti/miˈnu.ti/ tiny, minute, emaciated, thin #404
- Korean 잠깐만[t͡ɕa̠mk͈a̠nma̠n] just a minute, just a moment #190
- Latvian minūtes/ˈminuːtes/ #434
- Lithuanian minutes[mʲɪnʊˈtʲɛs] #507
- Macedonian минути[ˈminuti] #204
- Malayalam മിനിറ്റ്/minirrɨ/ minute; 60 seconds #196
- Norwegian minutter/mɪˈnʉtər/ a minute #321
- Persian دقیقه[d̪æ.ʁiː.ʁé] #582
- Polish minut/ˈmi.nut/ #362
- Portuguese minutos/ˌmiˈnutus/ #334
- Romanian minute/miˈnute/ #325
- Serbian minuta/minǔːta/ #307
- Slovak minúta/minuːta/ #2,024
- Slovenian minuta/minúːta/ #1,426
- Spanish minutos/miˈnutos/ #341
- Swedish minuter/ˈmiːnʉtɛr/ #332
- Tagalog muna/ˈmuna/ for a while; for a moment; for the time… #119
- Tamil அணு/ɐɳɯ/ atom, minute particle of matter #279
- Turkish dakika/da.ciːˈka/ #189
- Urdu منٹ/mɪ.nəʈ/ #148
- Vietnamese phút[fut̚˧˦] #413
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.