How to say “raise” in 30 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.
“raise” in French: lever · Russian: поднять · Greek: σήκωσε
It is commonest in Basque, where altxatu is the 554th most used word.
Raise in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian ngritur/nɡɾituɾ/ to raise, to elevate, to lift #1,093
- Arabic رفع/ra.fa.ʕa/ to lift, to raise aloft, to hoist up, to… #1,111
- Basque altxatu/alt͡ʃatu/ to raise, lift #554
- Bengali তোলা/t̪ola/ to lift, to raise #979
- Bosnian diži/ˈdiʒɪ/ to lift, raise, elevate #1,879
- Bulgarian вдигна[ˈvdiɡnɐ] to lift, to raise #1,644
- Catalan aixeca/əˈʃekə/ to lift up, lift, bring up, raise #1,141
- Chinese 提起/tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ to lift; to raise; to heave #970
- Croatian diži/ˈdiʒɪ/ to lift, raise, elevate #1,966
- Dutch licht/lɪxt/ to raise, to lift up #627
- English lift/lɪft/ To raise or rise #1,619
- Esperanto levu/ˈlevu/ to lift, to raise #1,311
- Finnish nosta/ˈnosta/ to lift, raise, elevate #2,042
- French lever/lə.ve/ to raise, lift #1,661
- Galician erguer/eɾˈɡeɾ/ to lift up, to elevate, to raise #2,361
- Greek σήκωσε/ˈsikoˌse/ to raise, put up, lift, heave #2,146
- Hebrew בנה/baˈna/ to build, to construct, to raise, to erect #1,703
- Hindi उठाया/ʊ.ʈʰɑː.jɑː/ to lift, to raise, to pick up #995
- Icelandic hefja[ˈhɛvja] to lift, to raise #1,212
- Indonesian mengangkat[məŋˈaŋkat̚] to raise #1,375
- Latvian uzdot/ˈuzduot/ to raise, to lift, e.g., hay, straw, etc #1,896
- Lithuanian kelti[kʲæːlʲtʲɪ] to raise, to lift, to heave, to elevate #2,308
- Malay angkat/ˈaŋkat/ to lift, to raise #562
- Romanian ridicat/ri.diˈkat/ to lift, elevate, raise, hoist, suspend #1,314
- Russian поднять[pɐdʲˈnʲætʲ] to raise, to elevate, to increase #2,396
- Serbian diži/ˈdiʒɪ/ to lift, raise, elevate #1,919
- Slovenian dvigniti/dʋìːɡniti/ to lift, to raise #1,175
- Tamil ஏற்று/eːrːɯ/ to lift, raise, hoist #815
- Ukrainian підняти[pʲidʲˈnʲate] to raise, to elevate; to increase #2,204
- Vietnamese nuôi[nuəj˧˧] to feed and raise, to rear #965
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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