How to say “program” in 31 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.
- 프로그램[pʰɯɾo̞ɡɯɾɛm] Korean
- תכנית/toχˈnit/ Hebrew
- প্রোগ্রাম/pɹoɡ.ɹam/ Bengali
- പ്രോഗ്രാം/pɾoːɡɾäːm/ Malayalam
“program” in French: programme · German: programm · Korean: 프로그램
It is commonest in Slovak, where program is the 733rd most used word.
Program in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian program/pɾɔɡɾam/ #1,552
- Bengali প্রোগ্রাম/pɹoɡ.ɹam/ #736
- Bosnian program/ˈproɡrɐm/ #1,094
- Bulgarian програма[proˈɡramɐ] #1,460
- Catalan programa[pɾuˈɣɾa.mə] program, plan, schedule #1,147
- Croatian program/ˈproɡrɐm/ #1,138
- Dutch programma/proːˈɣrɑ.maː/ #1,401
- Esperanto programo/proˈɡramo/ program, programme #2,077
- Estonian programm/ˈproɡ̊rɑmː/ #1,750
- French programme/pʁɔ.ɡʁam/ a program #1,248
- Galician programa/pɾoˈɡɾama/ programme, program #1,130
- German programm/proˈɡram/ #1,992
- Greek εκπομπή/ek.pomˈbi/ programme, program #1,769
- Hebrew תכנית/toχˈnit/ A program, a plan #929
- Hindi शो/ʃoː/ show, program #930
- Icelandic forrit[ˈfɔr.rɪt] program, application, application program #1,763
- Indonesian program/ˈproɡram/ program, programme #1,138
- Italian programma/proˈɡram.ma/ programme/program, schedule, agenda #920
- Korean 프로그램[pʰɯɾo̞ɡɯɾɛm] #1,321
- Lithuanian programa/proːɡrɐˈmɐ/ program, programme #1,164
- Malayalam പ്രോഗ്രാം/pɾoːɡɾäːm/ #1,152
- Norwegian programmet/prʊˈɡrɑmə/ a programme or program #1,795
- Polish program/ˈprɔ.ɡram/ #1,336
- Romanian program/pro.ˈɡram/ #1,471
- Serbian program/ˈproɡrɐm/ #1,140
- Slovak program/prɔɡram/ #733
- Spanish programa/pɾoˈɡɾama/ programme, program #844
- Swedish program/prʊˈɡram/ a program #1,997
- Tagalog programa/pɾoɡˈɾama/ #1,263
- Telugu పథకం/ˈpatʰakan/ scheme, program #1,688
- Turkish programı/pɾoɡɾaˈmɯ/ computer program #1,571
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 Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0).
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