How to say “party” in 45 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.
- fiesta/ˈfjesta/ Spanish
- 파티[pʰa̠tʰi] Korean
- पार्टी/pɑːɾʈiː/ Hindi
- πάρτι/ˈpaɾti/ Greek
- পার্টি/paɾʈi/ Bengali
- கட்சி/kɐʈtʃiː/ Tamil
“party” in Spanish: fiesta · German: party · Portuguese: festa · Korean: 파티 · Hindi: पार्टी · Turkish: parti · Greek: πάρτι
It is commonest in Tamil, where கட்சி is the 273rd most used word.
Party in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans fees/ˈfiəs/ party; social gathering #576
- Albanian festë/fɛstə/ celebration, party #681
- Arabic حزب/ħizb/ political party #2,199
- Bengali পার্টি/paɾʈi/ #602
- Bulgarian парти[ˈparti] #729
- Catalan festa[ˈfes.tə] celebration; party #566
- Chinese 受害人/ʂoʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ xaɪ̯⁵¹ ɻən³⁵/ aggrieved party; victim #1,504
- Croatian tulum/tǔlum/ #2,413
- Czech párty[ˈpaːrtɪ] alternative form of party ” #871
- Danish fest/ˈfɛsd/ #679
- Dutch feest/feːst/ #784
- Esperanto partio/parˈtio/ #1,847
- Estonian pidu/ˈpid̥u/ party, celebration #654
- Finnish juhlat/ˈjuhlat/ party, celebration, carnival, fiesta, jubilee #1,430
- French bal/bal/ dance party, ball #1,742
- Galician partida/paɾˈtida/ #1,771
- German party/ˈpaːɐ̯ti/ #729
- Greek πάρτι/ˈpaɾti/ #571
- Hebrew מסיבה/msiˈba/ A party: a social gathering for entertainment… #719
- Hindi पार्टी/pɑːɾʈiː/ #349
- Hungarian buli[ˈbuli] #1,399
- Icelandic partí[ˈpʰar̥ti] a party #924
- Indonesian pesta/ˈpɛsta/ party, a social gathering, a gathering of… #456
- Italian gruppo/ˈɡrup.po/ group, cluster, party, team, covey #731
- Korean 파티[pʰa̠tʰi] #557
- Lithuanian vakarėlis[ʋɐkɐ²ˈrʲeːlʲɪs] #731
- Malay pesta/pəsˈta/ #1,000
- Malayalam കക്ഷി/kɐkʂi/ party, faction #732
- Norwegian fest/ˈfɛst/ celebration, party #816
- Persian حزب[hezb̥] #1,708
- Polish imprezę/imˈprɛ.zɛ/ #1,784
- Portuguese festa/ˈfɛs.tɐ/ #451
- Romanian petrecere/peˈtre.t͡ʃe.re/ party; feast; celebration #672
- Russian вечеринка[vʲɪt͡ɕɪˈrʲinkə] soirée, evening party #1,441
- Serbian žurka/ʒûrka/ #1,914
- Slovenian stranka/stráːnka/ #617
- Spanish fiesta/ˈfjesta/ #446
- Swedish fest/fɛsːt/ a party #922
- Tagalog partido/paɾˈtido/ party; political party #1,390
- Tamil கட்சி/kɐʈtʃiː/ party, faction #273
- Telugu జట్టు/ˈɟaʈʈu/ a crowd; a party #232
- Turkish parti/paɾ.ti/ #628
- Ukrainian вечірка[ʋeˈt͡ʃʲirkɐ] #1,671
- Urdu فریق/fə.ɾiːq/ party, group #2,219
- Vietnamese tiệc[tiək̚˧˨ʔ] banquet; party; dinner #729
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), 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.