How to say “remain” in 41 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.
- остаться[ɐˈstat͡sːə] Russian
- تبقى/tabaqqaː/ Arabic
- 剩下/ʂɤŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ä⁵¹/ Chinese
“remain” in German: bleiben · Portuguese: resta · Chinese: 剩下 · Russian: остаться · Arabic: تبقى · Turkish: kal
It is commonest in Indonesian, where tinggal is the 167th most used word.
Remain in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans oorbly/ˈʊə̯r.bləi̯/ to remain, to be left #1,124
- Albanian mbetur/mbɛtuɾ/ to stay, remain #505
- Arabic تبقى/tabaqqaː/ to remain, to continue, to stay #350
- Armenian մնաք/məˈnɑkʰ/ to stay, to remain #418
- Bosnian ostati/ǒstati/ to stay, remain #445
- Bulgarian остана[oˈstanɐ] to stay, to remain #450
- Catalan queda/ˈkeðə/ to remain, to be left #333
- Chinese 剩下/ʂɤŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ä⁵¹/ to be left over; to remain #308
- Croatian ostati/ǒstati/ to stay, remain #371
- Czech zůstat[ˈzuːstat] to stay, to remain #521
- Dutch laat/laːt/ to leave, to cause to remain in the same… #84
- English leave/ˈliːv/ To cause or allow to remain as available; to… #182
- Esperanto restu/ˈrestu/ to remain, to stay #255
- Estonian jää/ˈjæː/ to stay, to remain #349
- Finnish pysy/ˈpysy/ to stay, remain #440
- Galician queda/ˈkeda/ to stay, remain #368
- German bleiben/ˈblaɪ̯bən/ to remain #264
- Greek κάθομαι/ˈkaθome/ to remain standing #1,905
- Hebrew נשאר/niˈʃaʁ/ to stay, to remain #561
- Hindi रहे/ɾə.ɦeː/ to stay, remain #26
- Hungarian maradj[ˈmɒrɒɟː] to stay, remain #449
- Icelandic dvelja[ˈtvɛlja] to stay, to remain, to dwell #2,008
- Indonesian tinggal/ˈtiŋɡal/ to remain #167
- Italian sta/ˈsta/ to stay, remain #76
- Korean 있다[it̚t͈a̠] to stay, remain in a location #164
- Latvian paliec/ˈpaliet͡s/ to remain #420
- Lithuanian likti/lʲɪk.tʲɪ/ stay, remain, be left #464
- Macedonian остане[ˈɔstanɛ] to stay, remain #485
- Norwegian blir/ˈbliːr/ to stay, remain #82
- Polish zostać/ˈzɔ.stat͡ɕ/ to stay, to remain #338
- Portuguese resta/ˈʁɛs.tɐ/ to remain #2,071
- Romanian rămâne/rəˈmɨ.ne/ to remain, be left, stay behind #498
- Russian остаться[ɐˈstat͡sːə] to remain, to stay #643
- Serbian ostati/ǒstati/ to stay, remain #527
- Slovak ostať/ɔstac/ to stay, to remain #671
- Slovenian ostal/ɔsˈtaːw/ to stay, remain #298
- Swedish stanna/ˈstana/ to stay; to remain at a place #227
- Tagalog manatili/manaˈtili/ to stay or remain unchanged or constant; to… #299
- Turkish kal/kaɫ/ to remain, be left; to be left over #373
- Ukrainian заспокойся[zɐspɔˈkɔi̯sʲɐ] calm down, remain calm #925
- Vietnamese sót[sɔt̚˧˦] to be left over, to remain, remaindered #928
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 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.