How to say “remove” in 33 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.
- убрать[ʊˈbratʲ] Russian
- كشف/kaʃafa/ Arabic
- निकाल/nɪ.kɑːl/ Hindi
- հեռացնել/herɑt͡sʰˈnel/ Armenian
- সরানো/ʃɔ.ra.no/ Bengali
- கிளை/kɪɭɐɪ̯/ Tamil
“remove” in French: enlever · German: entfernt · Russian: убрать · Arabic: كشف · Hindi: निकाल · Turkish: çıkarmak
It is commonest in Afrikaans, where verwyder is the 616th most used word.
Remove in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans verwyder/fərˈvəi̯.ər/ to remove #616
- Arabic كشف/kaʃafa/ to remove, to uncover, to reveal #1,343
- Armenian հեռացնել/herɑt͡sʰˈnel/ to remove #1,071
- Basque kendu/kendu/ to take away, to remove #182
- Bengali সরানো/ʃɔ.ra.no/ to remove, to withdraw #1,278
- Catalan allunya/əˈʎuɲə/ to move away, to remove #2,447
- Chinese 取消/t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/ to cancel; to remove #548
- Croatian maknuti/mǎknuti/ to take away, remove, displace #1,848
- Czech sundat[ˈsundat] to take off, to remove #2,491
- Danish flytte/fløtə/ move, remove #793
- Dutch verwijderd/vərˈʋɛɪdərt/ to remove #2,260
- English shut/ʃʌt/ To remove or block an opening, gap or passage… #397
- Esperanto forigu/foˈriɡu/ to remove, get rid of #1,428
- French enlever/ɑ̃l.ve/ to remove, take off, take away, clear #1,331
- Galician quita/ˈkita/ to remove #1,543
- German entfernt/ɛntˈfɛɾnt/ to remove #1,212
- Greek βγάλω/ˈvɣalo/ to take off, remove #819
- Hebrew ביער/biˈʔeʁ/ to destroy, remove #1,379
- Hindi निकाल/nɪ.kɑːl/ to remove, take out #763
- Icelandic fjarlægja[ˈfjar.laija] to remove, to take off, to strip #1,514
- Indonesian keluarkan/kəluˈarkan/ to remove, take out #875
- Korean 빼[p͈ɛ] to pull, to remove, to take out #1,113
- Norwegian fjernet/ˈfjæːɳət/ to remove #2,010
- Romanian scoate/ˈsko̯a.te/ to remove, take out, subtract, bring out,… #892
- Russian убрать[ʊˈbratʲ] to remove, to take away #2,119
- Slovenian sneti/snèːti/ to take off, remove #1,711
- Spanish aléjate/aˈlexate/ to remove to a distance, put farther away, to… #2,442
- Tamil கிளை/kɪɭɐɪ̯/ to remove, purge #997
- Telugu తొలగించు/ˈtolaˌɡincu/ to remove #1,094
- Turkish çıkarmak/t͡ʃɯkɑɾˈmɑk/ to remove #1,282
- Ukrainian зняти[ˈzʲnʲate] to remove, to take away, to take off, to take… #1,700
- Urdu نکالنا/nɪ.kɑːl.nɑː/ to remove, take out #1,745
- Vietnamese khử[xɨ˧˩] to remove, to rid of #1,998
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.