How to say “movie” in 31 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.
- 영화[jʌ̹ŋβwa̠] Korean
- კინო[kʼino̞] Georgian
- মুভি/mubʱi/ Bengali
“movie” in French: film · Korean: 영화
It is commonest in Korean, where 영화 is the 411th most used word.
Movie in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian film/film/ #817
- Arabic فيلم/film/ film, movie #455
- Bengali মুভি/mubʱi/ movie, film #943
- Bulgarian филм[fiɫm] film, movie, motion picture #705
- Chinese 片子/pʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩²/ film; movie #1,937
- Czech film[ˈfɪlm] movie, film, motion picture #963
- Danish film/film/ a movie, a film, motion picture #644
- Dutch video/ˈvi.di.oː/ video, movie #1,391
- Esperanto filmo/ˈfilmo/ film, movie, motion picture #792
- Finnish elokuva/ˈeloˌkuʋɑ/ movie, film, motion picture #2,110
- French film/film/ movie, film #521
- Galician filme/ˈfilme/ film; movie; motion picture #308
- Georgian კინო[kʼino̞] #1,098
- Greek ταινία/teˈnia/ film, movie #608
- Hungarian film[ˈfilm] film, movie, motion picture, picture #1,426
- Icelandic kvikmynd[ˈkʰvɪːk.mɪnt] movie, motion picture #1,730
- Italian film/ˈfilm/ film, movie #518
- Korean 영화[jʌ̹ŋβwa̠] movie, film #411
- Latvian filma/ˈfillma/ #1,642
- Lithuanian filmas[¹ˈfʲɪlmɐs] film, movie #488
- Malayalam സിനിമ/sinimɐ/ cinema, movie #252
- Persian فیلم[fiːlm] film, movie #701
- Polish film/ˈfilm/ film, movie, motion picture #778
- Portuguese filme/ˈfiw.mi/ film; movie; motion picture #613
- Romanian film/ˈfilm/ movie, film #727
- Russian фильм[fʲilʲm] film, movie #944
- Slovenian grozljivka/ɡrɔzljíːʋka/ horror movie #2,358
- Tagalog pelikula/peˈlikula/ film; movie; motion picture #698
- Telugu హీరో/ˈhiːroː/ the male lead of a movie #1,023
- Ukrainian фільм[fʲilʲm] film, movie #832
- Urdu فلم/fɪlm/ film, movie #1,308
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.