How to say “object” in 39 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.
It is commonest in Malay, where benda is the 219th most used word.
Object in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian trupi/tɾupi/ #795
- Armenian առարկա/ɑrɑɾˈkɑ/ object; thing #1,303
- Basque objektu/objektu/ #1,173
- Bengali বস্তু/ˈbɔst̪u/ thing; object; item #1,218
- Bosnian predmet/prěːdmet/ thing, object #2,218
- Bulgarian по[pɔ] introducing the object of a targeted action… #38
- Chinese 事物/ʂɻ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ u⁵¹/ thing; object; matter #785
- Croatian predmet/prěːdmet/ thing, object #2,132
- Czech vadit[ˈvaɟɪt] to mind, with the subject and the object… #2,174
- Dutch ballen/ˈbɑlə(n)/ a ball or any object with such a shape #1,609
- English that/ðæt/ Introducing a clause that is the object of a… #9
- French trouvée/tʁuˈve/ found, being to object of a find #1,654
- Galician obxecto/obˈʃɛkto/ object, thing #1,927
- German beine/ˈbaɪnə/ leg of a person, animal, or object #1,429
- Greek πράγματα/ˈpraɣmaˌta/ thing, entity, object #159
- Hebrew אתר/aˈtaʁ/ A site: the location of an object, person,… #1,626
- Hindi चीज़/t͡ʃiːz/ thing, object, item #1,068
- Hungarian dolog[ˈdoloɡ] thing, object #183
- Icelandic grípa[ˈkriːpa] to catch an object #1,295
- Indonesian benda/bənˈda/ object, good, etc #561
- Italian vi/ˈvi/ second-person personal plural object pronoun:… #133
- Latvian starp[staɾp] used to locate an object in the space defined… #269
- Lithuanian su[ˈsʊ] identifies the object of a reciprocal action #13
- Macedonian го[ɡɔ] Short direct object form of тој #6
- Malay benda/bənˈda/ object, thing, stuff, item, good #219
- Malayalam വസ്തു/ʋɐst̪u/ #838
- Norwegian deg/dæj/ thee, you; object form of du #14
- Persian به[be] Expresses the indirect object: to; for #4
- Portuguese lhes/ʎis/ indirect object of eles and elas #699
- Romanian lucru[ˈlukru] thing; object #140
- Russian вещи[ˈvʲeɕːɪ] thing, object #361
- Serbian predmet/prěːdmet/ thing, object #2,128
- Slovak predmet/predmet/ object, article #1,878
- Slovenian predmet/prɛ̀ːdmɛt/ #918
- Swedish en/ɛnː/ object form of the indefinite pronoun man #7
- Tagalog bagay/ˈbaɡaj/ thing; object; item #151
- Telugu గుండు/ˈɡunɖu/ a cylindrical or spherical object #1,577
- Ukrainian речі[ˈrɛt͡ʃʲi] thing, object #288
- Vietnamese vật[vət̚˧˨ʔ] #380
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), 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.