How to say “odd” in 35 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.
“odd” in Portuguese: estranho · Chinese: 奇怪
It is commonest in Chinese, where 奇怪 is the 134th most used word.
Odd in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vreemd/frɪəmt/ strange; odd #561
- Albanian çuditshme/t͡ʃuditʃmɛ/ strange, odd, peculiar, weird #427
- Armenian տարօրինակ/tɑɾoɾiˈnɑk/ strange, weird, odd #301
- Bengali অদ্ভুত/ɔd̪bʱut̪/ strange, queer, odd #355
- Bosnian čudan/t͡ʃûdan/ strange, weird, odd #1,591
- Bulgarian странен[ˈstranɛn] strange, odd #1,434
- Chinese 奇怪/t͡ɕʰi³⁵ ku̯aɪ̯⁵¹/ odd; strange; surprising; unexpected #134
- Croatian čudan/t͡ʃûdan/ strange, weird, odd #1,421
- Czech navíc[ˈnaviːt͡s] extra, odd #713
- Danish mærkeligt/ˈmɛɐ̯ɡəlid/ weird, strange, odd #1,204
- Dutch vreemd/vreːmt/ strange, weird, odd #661
- English strange/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of… #724
- Esperanto stranga/ˈstranɡa/ strange, odd, peculiar #601
- Estonian imelik/ˈimelik/ strange, weird, odd #631
- French bizarre/bi.zaʁ/ bizarre, odd, strange, funny #572
- Galician estraño/esˈtɾaɲo/ weird, odd, peculiar #669
- Georgian უცნაური[ut͡sʰnäuɾi] bizarre, eccentric, odd, quaint, queer,… #746
- German merkwürdig/ˈmɛʁkˌvʏʁdɪç/ strange, odd #2,119
- Greek παράξενο/paˈrakseˌno/ strange, weird, odd, bizarre #854
- Hebrew מוזר/muˈzaʁ/ strange, odd, bizarre, unusual, weird #308
- Hungarian furcsa[ˈfurt͡ʃɒ] strange, odd, peculiar, curious, weird,… #541
- Indonesian aneh/ˈaneh/ strange, weird, odd, unusual #280
- Italian strano/ˈstra.no/ strange, odd, dodgy #502
- Korean 별일[pjʌ̹ʎʎiɭ] an unusual event; an odd thing, a strange… #762
- Latvian liekas/ˈliekas/ #440
- Lithuanian keistas[ˈkʲɛjstɐs] strange, odd, peculiar #772
- Norwegian egne/ˈæ͡ɪnə/ peculiar, odd #704
- Polish dziwne/ˈd͡ʑiv.nɛ/ strange, odd, weird #587
- Portuguese estranho/isˈtɾɐ̃.ɲu/ odd; strange #493
- Russian странный[ˈstranːɨj] strange, odd, weird #2,246
- Serbian čudan/t͡ʃûdan/ strange, weird, odd #1,370
- Slovak divný/ɟivniː/ strange, odd, surprising #1,143
- Spanish extraño/e(ɡ)sˈtɾaɲo/ strange, unusual, odd, weird, bizarre,… #641
- Tamil ஒற்றைப்படை/orːɐɪ̯pːɐɖɐɪ̯/ odd numbers #1,525
- Vietnamese lố[lo˧˦] odd; strange #1,957
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), 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.