How to say “put” in 49 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.
- poner/poˈneɾ/ Spanish
- поставить[pɐˈstavʲɪtʲ] Russian
- وضع/wa.dˤa.ʕa/ Arabic
- लगा/lə.ɡɑː/ Hindi
- βάλω/ˈva.lo/ Greek
- դնել/dəˈnel/ Armenian
“put” in Spanish: poner · French: mettre · Italian: messo · Portuguese: pôr · Russian: поставить · Arabic: وضع · Hindi: लगा · Turkish: koymak
It is commonest in Basque, where jarri is the 106th most used word.
Put in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans geplaas/xəˈplɑːs/ to place; to put something down #1,126
- Albanian vë[və] to put, to place #420
- Arabic وضع/wa.dˤa.ʕa/ to put; to lay; to place; to set; to… #272
- Armenian դնել/dəˈnel/ to put, to lay #927
- Basque jarri/ɟari/ to put, place, lay down #106
- Bengali রাখা/rakʰa/ to put, to place, to lay #306
- Bosnian srediti/srěːditi/ to arrange, settle, put in order #919
- Bulgarian надявам[nɐˈdʲa̟vɐm] to put on #344
- Catalan posar[puˈza] to put, to place #365
- Chinese 放下/fɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ä⁵¹/ to lay down; to put down #236
- Croatian staviti/stâʋiti/ to put, place #739
- Czech postavit[ˈpostavɪt] to stand, put #1,472
- Danish sæt/sɛt/ to put, place, set #387
- Dutch zet/zɛt/ to set, to put #367
- English kill/ˈkɪl/ To put to death; to extinguish the life of #239
- Esperanto metu/ˈmetu/ to put, place #533
- Estonian panna/ˈpɑnːɑ/ to put, to place, to set #390
- Finnish laita/ˈlɑi̯tɑ/ to put, set, place #720
- French mettre/mɛtʁ/ to put; to place #325
- Galician pon/ˈpɔŋ/ to put, place #645
- German angetan[ˈanɡəˌtaːn] to put on, to dress #1,575
- Greek βάλω/ˈva.lo/ to put, place #638
- Hindi लगा/lə.ɡɑː/ to put, spread, apply, affix #252
- Hungarian állítja[ˈaːlːiːcːɒ] to place, put, set, stand, erect #1,950
- Icelandic láta[ˈlauːta] to put #143
- Indonesian memakai/məˈmakai̯/ to wear; to put on #475
- Italian messo/ˈmes.so/ to put, to place, to lay, to set #438
- Latvian liek/ˈliek/ to put #592
- Lithuanian dėti[¹ˈdʲeːtʲɪ] to place, to lay, to put #2,139
- Macedonian стави[ˈstavi] to put, place #367
- Malay letak/ləˈtak/ to place; to put; to insert #606
- Malayalam ഇട്ടു/iʈʈu/ to drop something down, to put #635
- Norwegian vent/ˈveːnt/ to stay put, to wait, to delay #160
- Persian بپوشم/bepuːʃæm/ to put on, to wear #1,866
- Polish założę/zaˈwɔ.ʐɛ/ to put on #1,493
- Portuguese pôr/ˈpo(ʁ)/ to put; to place #619
- Romanian pus[pus] to put #343
- Russian поставить[pɐˈstavʲɪtʲ] to put, to place, to set, to stand, to station #1,865
- Serbian srediti/srěːditi/ to arrange, settle, put in order #1,115
- Slovak daj/daj/ to give, put #157
- Slovenian vstaviti/ʋstàːʋiti/ to insert, to put #2,301
- Spanish poner/poˈneɾ/ to put, to place #601
- Swedish ordna/ˈuːrdna/ to order, to sort, to put in order, to… #945
- Tagalog ayusin/ʔaˈjusin/ to be arranged; to be put in order #878
- Tamil பொறு/porɯ/ to bear, tolerate, put up with #987
- Telugu ఉంచు/uɲt͡ɕu/ to place, put, set, lay, let be, keep,… #933
- Turkish koymak[kojˈmɑk] to put #2,094
- Ukrainian поставити[pɔˈstaʋete] to put, to place, to set, to station, to… #1,790
- Vietnamese bỏ[ʔɓɔ˧˩] to put; to place #167
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).
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