How to say “reply” 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.
- respuesta/resˈpwesta/ Spanish
- إجابة/ʔi.d͡ʒaː.ba/ Arabic
- 回答/xu̯eɪ̯³⁵ tä³⁵/ Chinese
- മറുപടി/mɐrubɐɖi/ Malayalam
“reply” in Spanish: respuesta · Chinese: 回答 · Arabic: إجابة
It is commonest in Chinese, where 回答 is the 187th most used word.
Reply in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian përgjigjem/pəɾɟiɟɛm/ to respond, to reply, to answer #1,542
- Arabic إجابة/ʔi.d͡ʒaː.ba/ reply, response, answer #1,551
- Armenian պատասխան/pɑtɑsˈχɑn/ answer, reply, response #392
- Bengali জবাব/d͡ʒɔbab/ answer; reply #722
- Bosnian odgovoriti/odɡoʋǒːriti/ to answer, reply #1,726
- Bulgarian отговор[ˈɔdɡovor] answer, reply #955
- Catalan respondre[rəsˈpɔn.dɾə] to reply; to respond #1,905
- Chinese 回答/xu̯eɪ̯³⁵ tä³⁵/ to reply; to answer; to respond #187
- Croatian odgovoriti/odɡoʋǒːriti/ to answer, reply #1,322
- Czech odpovědět[ˈotpovjɛɟɛt] to reply, to answer #2,425
- Danish svar/svɑːˀ/ to answer, reply, respond #575
- Dutch antwoord/ˈɑntʋoːrt/ to answer, reply #617
- English answer/ˈæn.sɚ/ A response or reply; something said or done… #509
- Esperanto respondu/resˈpondu/ to reply, answer, respond #796
- Finnish vastata/ˈʋɑstɑtɑˣ/ to answer, to reply; to respond #1,351
- French réponse/ʁe.pɔ̃s/ response, answer, reply #851
- Galician responder/responˈdeɾ/ to answer; to reply #1,774
- German antworten/ˈantvɔʁtn̩/ to answer, to reply #1,240
- Hebrew תגובה/tɡuˈva/ response, reaction, reply #1,327
- Hindi जवाब/d͡ʒə.ʋɑːb/ answer, reply, response #435
- Hungarian választ[ˈvaːlɒst] answer, reply #1,277
- Icelandic svara[ˈsvaːra] answer, reply #488
- Indonesian membalas/məmˈbalas/ to respond, to reply #1,428
- Italian rispondere/risˈpon.de.re/ to answer, to reply, to respond #1,193
- Lithuanian atsakyti[ɐtsɐ¹ˈkʲiːtʲɪ] to reply, to respond, to answer #864
- Macedonian одговори[ɔdˈɡɔvɔɾi] to answer, reply #618
- Malay jawab/ˈd͡ʒawab/ an answer or reply #588
- Malayalam മറുപടി/mɐrubɐɖi/ #290
- Norwegian svar/ˈsvɑːr/ to reply, answer #586
- Persian جواب[d͡ʒæ.vɒ́ːb̥] answer, reply #191
- Polish odpowiedź/ɔtˈpɔ.vjɛt͡ɕ/ answer, response, reply #1,094
- Portuguese responder/ʁes.põˈde(ʁ)/ to answer; to reply #1,346
- Romanian răspunde/rəs.ˈpun.de/ to respond, reply, answer #853
- Russian ответ[ɐtˈvʲet] answer, reply, response #829
- Serbian odgovoriti/odɡoʋǒːriti/ to answer, reply #2,117
- Slovenian odgovoriti/ɔdɡɔʋɔrìːti/ to answer, to reply #977
- Spanish respuesta/resˈpwesta/ reply, response, answer #817
- Swedish svara/ˈsvɑːˌra/ to answer, to reply, to respond #631
- Tagalog sagot/saˈɡot/ reply; response #943
- Tamil பதில்/pɐd̪ɪl/ answer, reply #190
- Turkish cevap/dʒeˈvap/ response, reply, answer #364
- Ukrainian відповідь[ˈʋʲidpɔʋʲidʲ] answer, reply, response #866
- Urdu جواب/d͡ʒə.ʋɑːb/ answer, reply, response #241
- Vietnamese đáp[ʔɗaːp̚˧˦] to reply or respond #1,217
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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