How to say “president” in 37 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.
- президент[prʲɪzʲɪˈdʲent] Russian
- 總統/t͡sʊŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ Chinese
- राष्ट्रपति/ɾɑːʂ.ʈɾə.pə.t̪iː/ Hindi
- նախագահ/nɑχɑˈɡɑh/ Armenian
- రాష్ట్రపతి/ˈraːʂʈraˌpati/ Telugu
- رئیس[ɹæ.ʔíːs] Persian
“president” in French: président · German: präsident · Italian: presidente · Portuguese: presidente · Chinese: 總統 · Russian: президент · Hindi: राष्ट्रपति · Turkish: başkan
It is commonest in Armenian, where նախագահ is the 229th most used word.
President in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian president/prɛsidˈɛnt/ #803
- Armenian նախագահ/nɑχɑˈɡɑh/ #229
- Basque lehendakari/lehendakaɾi/ president, prime minister #533
- Bengali রাষ্ট্রপতি/raʃʈɻopot̪i/ president of a state #1,653
- Bulgarian президент[prɛziˈdɛnt] #891
- Catalan president[pɾə.ziˈðen] #584
- Chinese 總統/t͡sʊŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ #2,386
- Czech prezident[ˈprɛzɪdɛnt] #1,442
- Danish præsident/pʁesiˈdɛnˀd/ #858
- Dutch president/preː.ziˈdɛnt/ #651
- Esperanto prezidento/preziˈdento/ #1,439
- Finnish presidentti/ˈpresidentːi/ #918
- French président/pʁe.zi.dɑ̃/ #662
- Galician presidente/pɾesiˈdente/ #439
- German präsident[pʁɛziˈdɛnt] president; chairman, chairperson, chair #1,241
- Hebrew נשיא/naˈsi/ A president: a head of state in various forms… #1,433
- Hindi राष्ट्रपति/ɾɑːʂ.ʈɾə.pə.t̪iː/ leader of a country, president #617
- Hungarian elnök[ˈɛlnøk] chairman, president #666
- Icelandic forseti[ˈfɔr̥.sɛːtɪ] #739
- Italian presidente/pre.siˈdɛn.te/ #629
- Korean 대통령[ˈtɛ(ː)tʰo̞ŋɲʌ̹ŋ] president of a country #748
- Latvian prezidents/ˈprezidents/ #1,126
- Lithuanian prezidentas[pʲrʲɛzʲɪ²ˈdʲɛnˑtɐs] #776
- Macedonian претседател[prɛtˈsɛdatɛɫ] #922
- Norwegian president/prəsɪˈdɛnt/ a president #802
- Persian رئیس[ɹæ.ʔíːs] #620
- Polish prezydent/ˈprɛ.zɘ.dɛnt/ #1,598
- Portuguese presidente/pɾe.ziˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/ #463
- Russian президент[prʲɪzʲɪˈdʲent] #920
- Slovak prezident/prezident/ #588
- Slovenian predsednik/prɛtséːdnik/ #348
- Spanish jefe/ˈxefe/ chief; president; head; leader of a business,… #356
- Tagalog presidente/pɾesiˈdente/ #1,401
- Telugu రాష్ట్రపతి/ˈraːʂʈraˌpati/ #830
- Turkish başkan/bɑʃˈkɑn/ #532
- Ukrainian президент[prezeˈdɛnt] #1,008
- Urdu صدر/səd̪ɾ/ #538
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).
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