How to say “patient” 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.
- paciente/paˈθjente/ Spanish
- 病人/piŋ⁵¹ ɻən³⁵/ Chinese
- রোগী/roɡi/ Bengali
- రోగి/ɾoːɡi/ Telugu
- صبور[sæ.buːɹ] Persian
“patient” in Spanish: paciente · French: patient · German: patienten · Italian: paziente · Portuguese: paciente · Chinese: 病人
It is commonest in Tagalog, where ng is the 4th most used word.
Patient in other languages, A to Z
- Arabic تمهل/ta.mah.ha.la/ to act slowly, to be patient, to delay #1,107
- Basque gaixo/ɡai̯ʃo/ #583
- Bengali রোগী/roɡi/ #1,111
- Bosnian pacijent/pat͡sǐjent/ #1,721
- Bulgarian пациент[pɐt͡siˈɛnt] #1,524
- Catalan pacient[pə.siˈen] #2,057
- Chinese 病人/piŋ⁵¹ ɻən³⁵/ patient; invalid; sick person #414
- Croatian pacijent/pat͡sǐjent/ #1,612
- Czech pacient[ˈpat͡sɪjɛnt] #2,187
- Danish patient[pʰaˈɕɛnˀd̥] #1,774
- Dutch patiënt/pɑˈʃɛnt/ patient, someone who receives therapeutic… #1,253
- French patient/pa.sjɑ̃/ patient, outpatient #1,353
- German patienten/paˈtsi̯ɛntən/ #1,522
- Greek πελάτης/peˈla.tis/ customer, client, patient #1,575
- Hebrew מטופל/mtuˈpal/ A patient: a person receiving medical… #2,011
- Icelandic sjúklingur[ˈsjuhkliŋkʏr] a patient, sick person #1,872
- Indonesian pasien[paˈsiɛn] patient, a person or animal who receives… #1,132
- Italian paziente/patˈt͡sjɛn.te/ #1,155
- Korean 환자[ˈɸwa̠(ː)ɲd͡ʑa̠] a medical patient #314
- Lithuanian pacientas[pɐt͡sʲɪ²ˈjɛnˑtɐs] #1,848
- Macedonian пациент[pat͡siˈɛnt] #1,790
- Malay sabar[sa.ba(r)] #907
- Norwegian pasient/pɑsɪˈɛnt/ a patient #2,277
- Persian صبور[sæ.buːɹ] #2,442
- Portuguese paciente/pa.siˈẽ.t͡ʃi/ #1,350
- Romanian pacient/pa.t͡ʃiˈent/ #1,830
- Serbian pacijent/pat͡sǐjent/ #1,717
- Slovenian bolnik/bɔʋnìːk/ #1,271
- Spanish paciente/paˈθjente/ #1,188
- Swedish patient/pasiˈenːt/ a patient #1,985
- Tagalog ng/naŋ/ the patient, undergoer, or theme of the… #4
- Telugu రోగి/ɾoːɡi/ patient, sick person, sufferer #819
- Urdu مریض/mə.ɾiːz/ patient, ill person #2,101
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.