How to say “natural” in 32 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.
- طبيعي/tˤabiːʕijj/ Arabic
- प्राकृतिक/pɾɑːk.ɾɪ.t̪ɪk/ Hindi
- טבעי/tiv.ˈ(ʔ)i/ Hebrew
- স্বাভাবিক/ʃabʱabik/ Bengali
- സ്വാഭാവിക/sʋaːb(ʱ)aːʋiɡɐ/ Malayalam
“natural” in Arabic: طبيعي · Hindi: प्राकृतिक · Turkish: doğal
It is commonest in Bengali, where স্বাভাবিক is the 576th most used word.
Natural in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans stokke/ˈstɔkə/ stick, whether natural or artificial #2,042
- Albanian natyrale/natyɾalɛ/ #2,272
- Arabic طبيعي/tˤabiːʕijj/ #700
- Bengali স্বাভাবিক/ʃabʱabik/ natural, innate; instinctual; instinctive #576
- Catalan natural[nə.tuˈɾal] native, natural #1,845
- Chinese 自然/t͡sɹ̩⁵¹ ɻän³⁵/ naturally; in a natural manner #443
- Dutch tanden/ˈtɑn.də(n)/ natural tooth, more specifically incisor #1,568
- English star/stɑɹ/ Any small, natural and bright dot in the sky,… #889
- Esperanto natura/naˈtura/ #2,248
- Estonian loomulik/loːmulˈik/ #1,639
- Galician natural/natuˈɾal/ native, natural #1,437
- Greek φυσιολογικό/ˌfisjoˌlojiˈko/ normal, natural #2,021
- Hebrew טבעי/tiv.ˈ(ʔ)i/ #1,104
- Hindi प्राकृतिक/pɾɑːk.ɾɪ.t̪ɪk/ #2,289
- Hungarian természetes[ˈtɛrmeːsɛtɛʃ] #1,613
- Icelandic enda[ˈɛnta] "which is natural, since ..." #482
- Indonesian alami/aˈlami/ #1,253
- Italian luna/ˈlu.na/ a natural satellite #1,239
- Malay alam/ˈalam/ nature; the natural environment #734
- Malayalam സ്വാഭാവിക/sʋaːb(ʱ)aːʋiɡɐ/ natural, self-generated, spontaneous #1,459
- Norwegian naturlig/nɑˈtʉːɭɪ/ #2,076
- Persian بکار[bekʰɒːɹ] #2,057
- Polish zasady/zaˈsa.dɘ/ law; natural law #1,322
- Romanian natural/na.tuˈral/ #2,144
- Russian умереть[ʊmʲɪˈrʲetʲ] to die of natural causes #926
- Slovenian naraven/naràːʋən/ #1,965
- Swedish råkar/ˈroːkar/ a long, natural crack in the ice cover of the… #1,893
- Tagalog likas/liˈkas/ natural; inborn; innate #675
- Tamil எரிவாயு/ɛɾɪʋɑːjɯ/ natural gas #918
- Telugu ప్రకృతి/ˈprakruti/ the original or natural form of anything,… #688
- Turkish doğal/doˈaɫ/ #942
- Vietnamese sát[saːt̚˧˦] to have a natural ability with catching #206
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.