How to say “opportunity” in 40 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.
- oportunidad/opoɾtuniˈdad/ Spanish
- возможность[vɐzˈmoʐnəsʲtʲ] Russian
- 機會/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/ Chinese
- 기회[kiβwe̞] Korean
- अवसर/əʋ.səɾ/ Hindi
- הזדמנות/hiz.damˈnut/ Hebrew
“opportunity” in Spanish: oportunidad · German: gelegenheit · Italian: occasione · Portuguese: oportunidade · Chinese: 機會 · Korean: 기회 · Russian: возможность · Hindi: अवसर
It is commonest in Vietnamese, where thể is the 32nd most used word.
Opportunity in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian mund/ˈmund/ can, to be able to; to have the opportunity,… #22
- Arabic فرصة/fur.sˤa/ chance, occasion, opportunity #228
- Bengali সুযোগ/ʃud͡ʒoɡ/ opportunity, chance #253
- Bosnian šanse/ˈʃansɛ/ chance, opportunity #541
- Catalan oportunitat[u.pur.tu.niˈtat] opportunity, chance #449
- Chinese 機會/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/ opportunity; chance #896
- Croatian šanse/ˈʃansɛ/ chance, opportunity #561
- Czech šance[ˈʃant͡sɛ] chance, odds, opportunity or possibility #837
- English chance/t͡ʃæns/ An opportunity or possibility #419
- Finnish tilaisuus/ˈtilɑi̯suːs/ opportunity, chance #1,773
- French occasion/ɔ.ka.zjɔ̃/ occasion, opportunity #1,255
- Galician oportunidade[ɔpoɾtuniˈðaðɪ] #652
- German gelegenheit[ɡəˈleːɡŋ̩haɪ̯t] opportunity, chance, instance, occasion #1,570
- Greek ευκαιρία/ef.ceˈri.a/ occasion, opportunity, chance #376
- Hebrew הזדמנות/hiz.damˈnut/ An opportunity, a chance #460
- Hindi अवसर/əʋ.səɾ/ opportunity, chance #1,131
- Hungarian alkalommal[ˈɒlkɒlomːɒl] occasion, opportunity, chance #1,292
- Icelandic tækifæri[ˈtʰaiːcɪˌfaiːrɪ] opportunity, chance #386
- Indonesian pilihan/piˈlihan/ an option; a decision; an opportunity to… #453
- Italian occasione/ok.kaˈzjo.ne/ opportunity, chance, occasion, scope #1,115
- Korean 기회[kiβwe̞] #1,433
- Lithuanian proga[ˈprôːɡɐ] chance, opportunity #757
- Macedonian прилика[ˈprilika] opportunity, chance #1,390
- Malayalam അവസരം/ɐʋɐsɐɾɐm/ opportunity, chance #243
- Norwegian mulighet/ˈmʉːlɪˌheːt/ an opportunity #1,188
- Persian فرصت[foɹ.sǽt̪ʰ] opportunity, chance #431
- Polish szansę/ˈʂan.sɛ/ chance, opportunity #734
- Portuguese oportunidade/o.poʁ.tu.niˈda.d͡ʒi/ #586
- Romanian oportunitate/ˌoporˌtuniˈtate/ #2,345
- Russian возможность[vɐzˈmoʐnəsʲtʲ] opportunity, chance, potential #874
- Serbian šanse/ˈʃansɛ/ chance, opportunity #517
- Slovak príležitosť/priːʎeʒitɔsc/ occasion, opportunity #666
- Slovenian priložnost/prilòːʒnɔst/ #262
- Spanish oportunidad/opoɾtuniˈdad/ opportunity, chance, shot, break, occasion,… #441
- Swedish tillfälle/ˈtɪlfɛlɛ/ #1,694
- Tagalog pagkakataon/paɡkaˌkataˈʔon/ opportunity; chance #309
- Tamil வாய்ப்பு/ʋɑːjpːɯ/ chance, opportunity, opening #180
- Turkish fırsat/fɯɾˈsat/ opportunity, chance, occasion #1,090
- Urdu موقع/mɔː.qɑː/ chance, opportunity #383
- Vietnamese thể[tʰe˧˩] opportunity; swoop #32
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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