How to say “receive” in 46 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.
- recibir/reθiˈbiɾ/ Spanish
- получить[pəɫʊˈt͡ɕitʲ] Russian
- تلقى/ta.laq.qaː/ Arabic
- קיבל/kiˈbel/ Hebrew
- ընդունել/əntʰuˈnel/ Armenian
- பெறுக/pɛrʊɡɐ/ Tamil
“receive” in Spanish: recibir · French: reçu · German: bekommen · Italian: ricevuto · Russian: получить · Arabic: تلقى
It is commonest in Malay, where terima is the 67th most used word.
Receive in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans kry/krəi/ to get, receive, obtain #81
- Arabic تلقى/ta.laq.qaː/ to receive, to obtain #1,669
- Armenian ընդունել/əntʰuˈnel/ to receive, to take #465
- Basque hartu/artu/ to take, receive, accept #56
- Bengali পা/pa/ to get, to receive #329
- Bosnian dobio/ˈdobɪo/ to receive, get, obtain, acquire #373
- Bulgarian приема[priˈɛmɐ] to receive #901
- Catalan rebut[rəˈβut] to receive #824
- Chinese 接受/t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵ ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/ to accept; to receive; to take #124
- Croatian dobio/ˈdobɪo/ to receive, get, obtain, acquire #306
- Danish modtaget/ˈmoðˌtaːˀəð/ to receive, get, accept #1,315
- Dutch krijg/ˈkrɛi̯x/ to get, to receive, to come into possession of #334
- English enjoy/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/ To receive pleasure or satisfaction from… #854
- Esperanto ricevis/riˈt͡sevis/ to receive, to get #478
- Estonian saa/sɑː/ to get, to receive #61
- Finnish saa/ˈsɑː/ to get, receive #85
- French reçu/ʁə.sy/ to receive #684
- Galician recibir/reθiˈbiɾ/ to receive #1,382
- Georgian მიიღებს[miiʁe̞bs] to get, to receive #652
- German bekommen/bəˈkɔmən/ to receive; to get #370
- Greek δέχομαι/ˈðe.xo.me/ to accept, receive #1,978
- Hebrew קיבל/kiˈbel/ To receive, to get #714
- Hindi पाया/pɑː.jɑː/ to get, receive #497
- Hungarian kaptam[ˈkɒptɒm] to get, to receive #615
- Icelandic fá[ˈfauː] to receive, to get #71
- Indonesian terima/təˈrima/ to receive #80
- Italian ricevuto/ri.t͡ʃeˈvu.to/ to receive, get, have, be given, take #627
- Latvian saņemt/ˈsaɲemt/ to receive, to get #1,263
- Lithuanian priimti[pʲr̺ʲɪˈɪmʲt̪ʲɪ] to receive, to accept #796
- Macedonian добива[ˈdɔbiva] to get, obtain, receive #1,171
- Malay terima/təˈrima/ To receive #67
- Malayalam വാങ്ങുക/ʋaːŋŋuɡɐ/ to receive, buy #1,814
- Norwegian får/foːr/ to get; to have; to obtain; to receive #80
- Polish przyjęcie/pʂɘˈjɛɲ.t͡ɕɛ/ to receive, to accept #1,285
- Portuguese receber/ʁe.seˈbe(ʁ)/ to get; to receive #951
- Romanian primit[priˈmit] to receive, to get #416
- Russian получить[pəɫʊˈt͡ɕitʲ] to receive, to get #573
- Serbian dobio/ˈdobɪo/ to receive, get, obtain, acquire #380
- Slovak dostať/dɔstac/ to get, to receive #170
- Slovenian dobiti/dɔbìːti/ to receive, get, obtain, acquire #333
- Spanish recibir/reθiˈbiɾ/ to receive, get #1,691
- Swedish får/foːr/ to get, to receive #54
- Tagalog magkaroon/maɡkaɾoˈʔon/ to have; to receive #385
- Tamil பெறுக/pɛrʊɡɐ/ to receive, get, gain, obtain, secure #414
- Ukrainian отримати[ɔˈtrɪmɐte] to receive #674
- Vietnamese nhận[ɲən˧˨ʔ] to receive; to get; to obtain #174
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.