How to say “park” in 34 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.
- parque/ˈpaɾke/ Spanish
- 공원[ko̞ŋwʌ̹n] Korean
- पार्क/pɑːɾk/ Hindi
- πάρκο/ˈpaɾ.ko/ Greek
- பூங்கா/puːŋɡɑː/ Tamil
- парк[park] Ukrainian
“park” in Spanish: parque · French: parc · German: park · Portuguese: parque · Korean: 공원 · Hindi: पार्क · Turkish: park · Greek: πάρκο
It is commonest in Persian, where پارک is the 682nd most used word.
Park in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans park/ˈpɐrk/ #1,148
- Albanian park/paɾk/ #1,060
- Basque parke/ˈpaɾke/ #1,178
- Bosnian park/pârk/ #1,385
- Bulgarian парк[park] #1,380
- Catalan parc[ˈpark] #2,077
- Croatian park/pârk/ #1,493
- Czech park[ˈpark] #1,942
- Danish park/paːrk/ #1,797
- Dutch park/pɑrk/ #1,094
- Estonian park/ˈpɑrk/ #1,790
- French parc/paʁk/ #1,681
- Galician parque/ˈpaɾke/ #1,648
- German park/paʁk/ park, grounds #1,505
- Greek πάρκο/ˈpaɾ.ko/ #1,476
- Hindi पार्क/pɑːɾk/ #1,429
- Hungarian park[ˈpɒrk] #1,918
- Indonesian taman[ˈt̪a.man] #1,115
- Korean 공원[ko̞ŋwʌ̹n] #1,203
- Latvian parkā/ˈparkaː/ #2,413
- Lithuanian parke[¹ˈpɑˑrʲkʲɛ] #1,563
- Macedonian парк[park] #1,128
- Malay taman/ˈtaman/ park, garden #983
- Norwegian park/ˈpɑrk/ a park #2,022
- Persian پارک[pʰɒːɹkʰʲ] #682
- Polish parku/ˈpar.ku/ #1,973
- Portuguese parque/ˈpaʁ.ki/ #1,349
- Romanian parc/ˈpark/ park; garden; terrace #1,764
- Serbian park/pârk/ #1,465
- Spanish parque/ˈpaɾke/ #1,595
- Swedish park/parːk/ a park #2,129
- Tamil பூங்கா/puːŋɡɑː/ #1,004
- Turkish park/pɑɾk/ #731
- Ukrainian парк[park] #2,078
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 Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.