How to say “quick” 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.
“quick” in German: schneller · Hindi: चालाक · Greek: γρήγορο
It is commonest in Malay, where cepat is the 115th most used word.
Quick in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans gou/ˈxəʊ/ quick, quickly #157
- Albanian shpejtë/ʃpɛjtə/ quick, fast #339
- Arabic وشك/wa.ʃa.ka/ to be quick, to hurry #305
- Basque azkarrago/as̻ˈkaraˌɣo/ fast, quick #606
- Bengali দ্রুত/d̪ɾut̪o/ fast, quick, apace #239
- Bulgarian по-бързо[ˈpɔ-ˈbɤrzo] fast, swift, quick, rapid, sweeping, fleet #650
- Catalan ràpida/ˈrapiðə/ rapid; quick; fast; speedy #2,410
- Chinese 迅速/ɕyn⁵¹⁻⁵³ su⁵¹/ rapid; quick #1,099
- Danish hurtig/horti/ quick, rapid, fast #1,310
- Dutch snel/snɛl/ fast, quick, rapid #249
- English quick/kwɪk/ Quickly, in a quick manner #702
- Esperanto rapida/raˈpida/ quick, fast, rapid #1,749
- Finnish nopea/ˈnopeɑ/ fast, quick, rapid, swift #2,179
- German schneller/ˈʃnɛlɐ/ quick, fast #872
- Greek γρήγορο/ˈɣriɣoˌro/ quick, fast, swift, brisk #2,424
- Hebrew מהיר/maˈ(h)iʁ/ fast, quick, swift #844
- Hindi चालाक/t͡ʃɑː.lɑːk/ quick, speedy #1,424
- Hungarian gyors[ˈɟorʃ] rapid, quick, fast #1,098
- Icelandic fljótur[ˈfljouːtʏr] swift, quick, fast #2,112
- Italian veloce/veˈlo.t͡ʃe/ fast, quick, speedy, rapid #845
- Latvian ātri/ˈaːtri/ fast, quick, quickly; adverbial form of ātrs #248
- Lithuanian greitas[ˈɡɾɛjtɐs] #1,267
- Macedonian брза[ˈbr̩za] fast, quick, rapid #1,143
- Malay cepat/t͡ʃəˈpat/ quick, fast, rapid, apace, prompt #115
- Norwegian fort/fuʈ/ fast, quick, quickly #338
- Persian تند[t̪ʰon̪d̪̥] fast; quick #1,239
- Slovak rýchly/riːxli/ fast, quick #1,230
- Slovenian hiter/ˈxiːtər/ fast, quick #786
- Swedish fort/ˈfʊʈ/ quickly/quick, fast #397
- Tagalog madali/madaˈliʔ/ quick; easy #584
- Turkish hızlı/hɯzˈɫɯ/ fast, rapid, quick #394
- Urdu تیز/t̪eːz/ fast, quick #545
- Vietnamese tinh[tïŋ˧˧] quick to notice; sharp, keen, etc #488
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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