How to say “ready” in 44 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.
- مستعد/mustaʕidd/ Arabic
- तैयार/t̪ə̯i.jɑːɾ/ Hindi
- έτοιμος/ˈe.ti.mos/ Greek
- מוכן/muːˈχɔːn/ Hebrew
- მზად[mzätʰ] Georgian
- தயார்/t̪ɐjɑːɾ/ Tamil
“ready” in French: prêt · Italian: pronto · Portuguese: pronta · Arabic: مستعد · Hindi: तैयार · Turkish: hazır · Greek: έτοιμος
It is commonest in Urdu, where تیار is the 118th most used word.
Ready in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans klaar/klɑːr/ ready, prepared #261
- Albanian gatshëm/ɡatʃəm/ #793
- Arabic مستعد/mustaʕidd/ #417
- Armenian պատրաստ/pɑtˈɾɑst/ prepared, ready #191
- Basque gertu/ɡertu/ ready, prepared #322
- Bengali নগদ/nɔɡɔd̪/ ready money; cash #1,028
- Bosnian spreman/sprêman/ ready, prepared #421
- Bulgarian готов[ɡoˈtɔf] ready, prepared #382
- Catalan llest[ˈʎest] #926
- Chinese 準備/ʈ͡ʂu̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹ peɪ̯⁵¹/ to prepare; to get ready #487
- Croatian spreman/sprêman/ ready, prepared #427
- Czech připravený[ˈpr̝̊ɪpravɛniː] ready, prepared #1,254
- Danish parat/paraːˀt/ ready, at hand #1,144
- Dutch klaar/klaːr/ #202
- English prepared/pɹɪˈpɛɹd/ To make ready for a specific future purpose;… #1,520
- Esperanto pretas/ˈpretas/ to be ready #342
- Finnish syömään/ˈsyø̯mæːn/ dinner's ready! #1,198
- French prêt/pʁɛ/ #412
- Georgian მზად[mzätʰ] #161
- German fertig/ˈfɛrtɪç/ ready for use; done; fully prepared #310
- Greek έτοιμος/ˈe.ti.mos/ ready, prepared #539
- Hebrew מוכן/muːˈχɔːn/ Ready, prepared #219
- Hindi तैयार/t̪ə̯i.jɑːɾ/ ready, prepared #211
- Icelandic tilbúinn[ˈtʰɪl.puːɪn(ː)] #328
- Indonesian siap/ˈsiap/ ready, prepared, all set #217
- Italian pronto/ˈpron.to/ ready, prepared #312
- Latvian gatavs[ˈɡatːaws] #239
- Macedonian готово[ˈɡɔtɔvɔ] ready, prepared #379
- Malay sanggup/ˈsaŋɡup/ to be willing; to be ready; to be prepared #719
- Malayalam റെഡി/reɖi/ #353
- Persian آماده[ʔɒː.mɒː.d̪é] #153
- Polish gotowy/ɡɔˈtɔ.vɘ/ ready, prepared #679
- Portuguese pronta/ˈprõtɐ/ ready, finished #1,009
- Romanian dispus/disˈpus/ ready, willing #1,752
- Serbian spreman/sprêman/ ready, prepared #437
- Spanish dispuesto/disˈpwesto/ willing, ready, game, down #1,977
- Swedish klara/ˈklɑːra/ ready, finished, done #441
- Tagalog handa/hanˈdaʔ/ ready; prepared #411
- Tamil தயார்/t̪ɐjɑːɾ/ ready, prepared #303
- Telugu నగదు/ˈnaɡadu/ cash; ready money #344
- Turkish hazır/hɑzɯɾ/ #220
- Ukrainian готовий[ɦɔˈtɔʋei̯] #475
- Urdu تیار/t̪ə̯i.jɑːɾ/ #118
- Vietnamese sẵn[san˦ˀ˥] ready; prepared #367
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 Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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