How to say “nine” in 48 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.
- nueve/ˈnwebe/ Spanish
- девять[ˈdʲevʲɪtʲ] Russian
- تسعة/tis.ʕa/ Arabic
- 구[ku] Korean
- नौ/nɔː/ Hindi
- תשעה/tiʃˈʕaː/ Hebrew
“nine” in Spanish: nueve · French: neuf · German: neun · Italian: nove · Portuguese: nove · Korean: 구 · Russian: девять · Arabic: تسعة
It is commonest in Catalan, where nou is the 219th most used word.
Nine in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans nege/ˈnɪəχə/ #931
- Albanian nëntë/nənt(ə)/ #875
- Arabic تسعة/tis.ʕa/ #985
- Armenian ինը/ˈinə/ #529
- Basque bederatzi/bedeɾat͡s̻i/ #695
- Bengali নয়/nɔe̯/ #448
- Bosnian devet/dêʋet/ #1,081
- Bulgarian девет[ˈdɛvɛt] #1,313
- Catalan nou[ˈnɔw] #219
- Croatian devet/dêʋet/ #1,101
- Czech devět[ˈdɛvjɛt] #1,281
- Danish ni/niː/ #955
- Dutch negen/ˈneː.ɣə(n)/ #1,003
- English ten/tɛn/ The number occurring after nine and before… #610
- Esperanto naŭ/nau̯/ #1,693
- Estonian üheksa/ˈyheksɑ/ #983
- Finnish yhdeksän/ˈyhdeksæn/ #1,537
- French neuf/nœf/ #841
- Galician nove/ˈnɔbe/ #968
- Georgian ცხრა[t͡sʰχɾä] #1,318
- German neun/nɔʏ̯n/ #1,361
- Greek θ/ˈθita/ The number nine in Greek numerals #601
- Hebrew תשעה/tiʃˈʕaː/ #2,073
- Hindi नौ/nɔː/ #1,649
- Hungarian kilenc[ˈkilɛnt͡s] #1,789
- Icelandic níu[ˈniːjʏ] #500
- Indonesian sembilan/səmˈbilan/ #1,326
- Italian nove/ˈnɔ.ve/ #1,418
- Korean 구[ku] #1,545
- Latvian deviņi[ˈdɛviɲi] #1,562
- Lithuanian devyni[dʲɛʋʲiːˈnʲɪ] #1,137
- Macedonian девет[ˈdɛvɛt] #1,163
- Malay sembilan/səmˈbilan/ #1,154
- Malayalam ഒൻപത്/onpɐd̪ɨ/ #1,697
- Norwegian ni/ni/ #861
- Portuguese nove/ˈnɔ.vi/ #1,278
- Romanian nouă/ˈno.wə/ #474
- Russian девять[ˈdʲevʲɪtʲ] #1,914
- Serbian devet/dêʋet/ #1,072
- Slovak deväť/ɟevæc/ #891
- Slovenian devet/dɛʋéːt/ #519
- Spanish nueve/ˈnwebe/ #1,256
- Swedish nio/ˈniːˌʊ/ #929
- Tagalog siyam/siˈam/ #1,167
- Tamil ஒன்பது/onbɐd̪ɯ/ #656
- Turkish dokuz/doˈkuz/ #1,137
- Urdu نو/nɔː/ #484
- Vietnamese chín[t͡ɕin˧˦] #1,496
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.