How to say “move” in 50 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.
- mueve/ˈmwebe/ Spanish
- двигаться[ˈdvʲiɡət͡sə] Russian
- շարժվել/ʃɑɾʒˈvel/ Armenian
- চলা/t͡ʃɔ.la/ Bengali
- நகர்த்து/nɐɡɐɾt̪ːɯ/ Tamil
- നീങ്ങുക/n̪iːŋŋuɡɐ/ Malayalam
“move” in Spanish: mueve · French: bouge · Portuguese: mexer · Russian: двигаться
It is commonest in Basque, where ibili is the 143rd most used word.
Move in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans beweeg/bəˈvɪə̯χ/ to move, to be in motion, to stir #341
- Albanian lëviz/ləviz/ to move, set in motion, transfer #290
- Arabic أخرج/ʔaxrad͡ʒa/ to move out, take out, dislodge #366
- Armenian շարժվել/ʃɑɾʒˈvel/ to move #394
- Basque ibili/ibili/ to move, to be in motion #143
- Bengali চলা/t͡ʃɔ.la/ to move, to walk about, to move about #1,245
- Bosnian kreni/ˈkrɛnɪ/ to move, set in motion #853
- Bulgarian седна[ˈsɛdnɐ] to move oneself into a sitting position, to… #2,018
- Catalan moure[ˈmɔw.ɾə] to move #1,132
- Chinese 快點/kʰu̯aɪ̯⁵¹ ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ Hurry up! Get a move on!; Quickly! #490
- Croatian krenuti/krěːnuti/ to move, set in motion #908
- Czech hnout[ˈɦnou̯t] to move #2,024
- Danish flytte/fløtə/ move, remove #793
- Dutch ga/ɣaː/ to go, to move from one place to another #62
- English go/ɡoʊ/ To move through space #47
- Esperanto moviĝu/moˈvidʒu/ to move #818
- Estonian liikuma/ˈliˑkumɑ/ to move to change one's position or location,… #918
- Finnish laske/ˈlaske/ to lower, move down #1,406
- French bouge/buʒ/ to move #780
- Galician mover/moˈbeɾ/ to move #1,934
- German verschwunden/fɛɐ̯ˈʃvʊndn̩/ to disappear, to vanish, to move out of view #1,102
- Greek πάρει/ˈpari/ to take, get, move #232
- Hebrew פעולה/pe.(ʔ)uˈla/ an action, a move #772
- Hindi गया/ɡə.jɑː/ to go, move, travel, leave, depart; to… #33
- Hungarian szabad[ˈsɒbɒd] free to move or act according to one's will #397
- Icelandic flytja[ˈflɪːtja] to move, to relocate #544
- Indonesian bergerak/bərˈɡɛrak/ to move #309
- Italian sbrigati/zbriˈɡa.ti/ get a move on!, get moving!, come on! #1,727
- Latvian līdzi/ˈliːdzi/ used to indicate somebody move together with… #245
- Lithuanian juda/ˈjʊdɐ/ to move #755
- Macedonian движи[ˈdviʒi] to move #836
- Malay alih/aleh/ to shift, to turn, to move #803
- Malayalam നീങ്ങുക/n̪iːŋŋuɡɐ/ to move #2,032
- Norwegian kom/kɔm/ to come; to approach or move towards the… #47
- Polish ruszaj/ˈru.ʂaj/ to move #911
- Portuguese mexer/meˈʃe(ʁ)/ to move, to mess with, to put your hands on #1,757
- Romanian mutat[muˈtat] to move, shift #1,087
- Russian двигаться[ˈdvʲiɡət͡sə] to move #1,417
- Serbian kreni/ˈkrɛnɪ/ to move, set in motion #902
- Slovak smeruje/smeruje/ to move, to head #1,600
- Slovenian oditi/ɔdìːti/ to go, to move further away #283
- Spanish mueve/ˈmwebe/ to move #2,144
- Swedish ta/tɑː/ take; to grab and move to oneself #59
- Tagalog kilos/ˈkilos/ movement; motion; move; moving #796
- Tamil நகர்த்து/nɐɡɐɾt̪ːɯ/ to move #437
- Telugu తరలించు/t̪aɾaliɲt͡ɕu/ to cause to move, march #293
- Turkish gel/ɟɛl/ to come, move closer #130
- Ukrainian рухатися[ˈruxɐtesʲɐ] to move #1,604
- Urdu چلانا/t͡ʃə.lɑː.nɑː/ to cause to walk; to move #1,236
- Vietnamese máy[maj˧˦] to move around #245
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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