How to say “quickly” 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.
- 어서[ʌ̹sʰʌ̹] Korean
- जल्दी/d͡ʒəl.d̪iː/ Hindi
- γρήγορα/ˈɣɾiɣoɾa/ Greek
- מהר/maˈ(h)eʁ/ Hebrew
- জলদি/d͡ʒold̪i/ Bengali
- വേഗം/ʋeːɡɐm/ Malayalam
“quickly” in French: vite · German: schnell · Italian: velocemente · Korean: 어서 · Hindi: जल्दी · Turkish: çabuk · Greek: γρήγορα
It is commonest in Malayalam, where വേഗം is the 53rd most used word.
Quickly in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans gou/ˈxəʊ/ quick, quickly #157
- Albanian shpejt/ʃpɛjt/ quickly, fast #164
- Armenian արագ/ɑˈɾɑɡ/ fast, quickly, rapidly #237
- Basque azkar/as̻kar/ fast, quickly #145
- Bengali জলদি/d͡ʒold̪i/ quickly; hurriedly; hastily #188
- Bosnian brzo/br̂ːzo/ quickly, rapidly #269
- Bulgarian бързо[ˈbɤrzo] quickly, fast #255
- Catalan ràpid[ˈra.pit] rapidly, quickly #440
- Chinese 快速/kʰu̯aɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ su⁵¹/ rapidly; quickly #934
- Croatian brzo/br̂ːzo/ quickly, rapidly #310
- Czech rychle[ˈrɪxlɛ] #303
- Dutch gauw/ɣɑu̯/ #1,481
- English run/ɹʌn/ To move forward quickly upon two feet by… #316
- Esperanto rapide/raˈpide/ rapidly; quickly #175
- Estonian kiiresti/ˈkiːresti/ fast, quickly #370
- Finnish nopeasti/ˈnopeɑstiˣ/ rapidly, quickly #394
- French vite/vit/ #250
- Galician rápido/ˈrapido/ #423
- Georgian ჩქარა[t͡ʃʰkʰäɾä] fast, quickly, rapidly #997
- German schnell/ʃnɛl/ #269
- Greek γρήγορα/ˈɣɾiɣoɾa/ quickly, fast #230
- Hebrew מהר/maˈ(h)eʁ/ quickly, rapidly, fast #233
- Hindi जल्दी/d͡ʒəl.d̪iː/ quickly, rapidly; soon #218
- Hungarian gyorsan[ˈɟorʃɒn] quickly, swiftly, fast, rapidly #281
- Indonesian lari/ˈlari/ to move forward quickly upon two feet by… #378
- Italian velocemente/ve.lo.t͡ʃeˈmen.te/ quickly, speedily, fast, rapidly #1,944
- Korean 어서[ʌ̹sʰʌ̹] #82
- Latvian ātrāk/ˈaːtraːːk/ faster, more quickly: adverbial form of ātrāks #244
- Lithuanian greičiau[ɡrʲɛɪ²ˈt͡ʃʲɛʊˑ] quickly, swiftly #135
- Macedonian брзо[ˈbr̩zɔ] fast, quickly, rapidly #225
- Malay lekas/ləkas/ Quickly or fast #824
- Malayalam വേഗം/ʋeːɡɐm/ #53
- Norwegian snart/ˈsnɑːʈ/ soon, quickly, shortly #237
- Persian سرعت[soɹ.ʔæt̪ʰ] #598
- Polish szybko/ˈʂɘp.kɔ/ quickly, rapidly, fast, swiftly #251
- Portuguese rápido/ˈʁa.pi.du/ with speed; rapidly; quickly #444
- Romanian repede/ˈre.pe.de/ fast, quickly, rapidly #247
- Russian быстро[ˈbɨstrə] fast, quickly, rapidly #376
- Serbian brzo/br̂ːzo/ quickly, rapidly #270
- Slovak rýchlo/riːxlɔ/ #190
- Slovenian hitro/xìːtrɔ/ fast, quickly #158
- Spanish rápido/ˈrapido/ rapidly, quickly, fast #310
- Swedish fort/ˈfʊʈ/ quickly/quick, fast #397
- Tamil சீக்கிரம்/tʃiːkːɪɾɐm/ soon, quickly #209
- Telugu త్వరగా/ˈtʋaraɡaː/ #283
- Turkish çabuk/t͡ʃaˈbuk/ quickly, soon #307
- Ukrainian швидко[ˈʃʋɪdkɔ] fast, quickly #380
- Urdu بیگ/beːɡ/ hastily, speedily, quickly, soon #409
- Vietnamese nhanh[ɲajŋ̟˧˧] fast; quickly #220
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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