How to say “oh” in 33 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.
- oh/ˈo/ Spanish
- אוי/oj/ Hebrew
- اوه[ʔuːʱ] Persian
“oh” in Spanish: oh · French: oh · German: oh · Italian: oh
It is commonest in Persian, where اوه is the 43rd most used word.
Oh in other languages, A to Z
- Arabic أيتها/ʔajjatuhaː/ O, oh: form of أَيُّهَا used when addressing… #262
- Bengali রে/ɾe/ alas, ho, oh, ah #282
- Catalan oh/ˈɔ/ #173
- Chinese 啊哈/ˀä⁵⁵ xä⁵⁵/ oh my #1,334
- Czech ó/ˈdloʊheːˌoː/ #956
- Danish jaså/jaˈsɐ/ oh, is that so #1,500
- Dutch oh/oː/ #179
- Esperanto ho/ho/ #72
- Estonian issand/ˈisːɑnd̥/ Said in supplication, oh my God! #394
- Finnish kas/ˈkɑs/ look!, oh!, my!, behold! #1,610
- French oh/o/ #105
- Galician oh[ˈɔː] #195
- Georgian ააა[äää] ah!, oh!, aha! #371
- German oh/oː/ #84
- Hebrew אוי/oj/ oh, alas, woe, oy #303
- Hindi अरे/ə.ɾeː/ hey, oh, arrey #114
- Hungarian ó[ˈoː] oh! #82
- Icelandic ó[ˈouː] oh!, ah! #621
- Indonesian ah/ˈah/ oh, expresses compassion, surprise and dismay #276
- Italian oh/ˈo/ #59
- Korean 세상에[ˈsʰe̞(ː)sʰa̠ŋe̞] oh my God! oh no! #140
- Macedonian ох[ɔx] #160
- Malayalam എന്റമ്മോ/en̪rɐmmoː/ oh my god #2,327
- Persian اوه[ʔuːʱ] oh; an exclamation of surprise #43
- Polish och/ˈɔx/ oh! #358
- Romanian măi/məj/ oh, oh my, hey #1,960
- Russian господи[ˈɡospədʲɪ] oh my God, oh my Lord #375
- Slovak panebože/paɲebɔʒe/ oh my God #886
- Spanish oh/ˈo/ #101
- Swedish åh/ˈoːh/ #242
- Tagalog hala/haˈla/ oh no #1,291
- Urdu ارے/ə.ɾeː/ hey, ho, oh, whew, yo #96
- Vietnamese ơi[ʔəːj˧˧] vocative particle; oh, hey #231
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) 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.