How to say “prepare” 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.
- preparado/pɾepaˈɾado/ Spanish
- أعد/ʔaʕadda/ Arabic
- 準備/ʈ͡ʂu̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹ peɪ̯⁵¹/ Chinese
- הכין/heːˈχiːn/ Hebrew
- అమర్చు/ˈamarcu/ Telugu
“prepare” in Spanish: preparado · French: préparer · German: vorbereitet · Italian: preparato · Portuguese: preparar · Chinese: 準備 · Arabic: أعد
It is commonest in Macedonian, where подготвен is the 463rd most used word.
Prepare in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian gatuaj/ɡatuaj/ to cook, prepare, make ready #2,277
- Arabic أعد/ʔaʕadda/ to prepare, make ready, equip #496
- Bulgarian приготвя[priˈɡɔtvʲɐ] to prepare #2,152
- Catalan preparat[pɾə.pəˈɾat] to prepare #729
- Chinese 準備/ʈ͡ʂu̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹ peɪ̯⁵¹/ to prepare; to get ready #487
- Croatian pripremiti/priprěːmiti/ to prepare #2,085
- Czech připravit[ˈpr̝̊ɪpravɪt] to prepare #1,256
- Dutch maken/ˈmaːkə(n)/ to make, create, prepare #129
- English cooking/ˈkʊkɪŋ/ To prepare food for eating, typically by… #2,159
- Esperanto preparis/preˈparis/ to prepare #1,505
- French préparer/pʁe.pa.ʁe/ to prepare #1,309
- Galician preparado/pɾepaˈɾado/ to prepare #1,302
- German vorbereitet/ˈfoːɾbəˌraɪtət/ to prepare #1,833
- Greek ετοιμαστείτε/ˌetimasˈtite/ to get ready, prepare oneself #2,438
- Hebrew הכין/heːˈχiːn/ to prepare #2,425
- Hindi पकाने/pə.kɑː.neː/ to cook, prepare food #2,002
- Hungarian készült[ˈkeːsylt] to prepare #1,428
- Icelandic undirbúa[ˈʏntɪrˌpuːa] to prepare #1,195
- Indonesian bersedia/bərsəˈdia/ to prepare #1,179
- Italian preparato/pre.paˈra.to/ to prepare, make ready, get ready, arrange #1,995
- Lithuanian paruošti[pɐˈruə̯ɕtʲɪ] to prepare #1,102
- Macedonian подготвен[ˈpɔdɡɔtvɛn] to prepare #463
- Malayalam തയ്യാറാവുക/t̪ɐjjaːraːʋuɡɐ/ to prepare oneself #2,255
- Norwegian forberedt/ˈfɔrbəˌrɛt/ to prepare #1,923
- Polish przygotować/pʂɘ.ɡɔˈtɔ.vat͡ɕ/ to prepare #1,473
- Portuguese preparar/pɾe.paˈɾa(ʁ)/ to prepare, to get ready #1,316
- Romanian pregătesc/pre.ɡəˈtesk/ to prepare #1,805
- Spanish preparado/pɾepaˈɾado/ to prepare #1,307
- Tagalog humanda/humanˈdaʔ/ to prepare; to get ready #1,419
- Tamil பொருத்து/poɾʊt̪ːɯ/ to adapt, fit, prepare, adjust #2,193
- Telugu అమర్చు/ˈamarcu/ to prepare, make ready #1,530
- Urdu پکانا/pə.kɑː.nɑː/ to cook, prepare food #2,089
- Vietnamese biện[ʔɓiən˧˨ʔ] to prepare #1,674
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 Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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