How to say “report” in 35 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.
- informe/inˈfoɾme/ Spanish
- сообщение[sɐɐpˈɕːenʲɪje] Russian
- 報告/pɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ kɑʊ̯⁵¹/ Chinese
- 보고[ˈpo̞(ː)ɡo̞] Korean
- रिपोर्ट/ɾɪ.poːɾʈ/ Hindi
- റിപ്പോർട്ട്/ripːoːrʈːɨ̆/ Malayalam
“report” in Spanish: informe · German: bericht · Italian: rapporto · Portuguese: relatório · Chinese: 報告 · Korean: 보고 · Russian: сообщение · Hindi: रिपोर्ट
It is commonest in Korean, where 보고 is the 121st most used word.
Report in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans verslag/fərˈslɐx/ #811
- Albanian raport/ɾapɔɾt/ #1,663
- Armenian լուր/luɾ/ news; report; information; tidings #321
- Bosnian vijest/ʋjêːst/ report, news #1,529
- Catalan informe/iɱˈformə/ #1,074
- Chinese 報告/pɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ kɑʊ̯⁵¹/ to report; to inform one's superiors #1,740
- Croatian vijest/ʋjêːst/ report, news #1,057
- Czech hlášení[ˈɦlaːʃɛɲiː] #1,615
- Danish fortælle/fɔˈtɛlˀə/ to tell, to report #226
- Dutch bericht/bəˈrɪxt/ to report, inform #959
- German bericht/bəˈʁɪçt/ report, account, news story #1,431
- Greek δήλωση/ˈði.lo.si/ statement, report, announcement, declaration #2,427
- Hebrew כתבה/kataˈva/ A news article, a report #1,718
- Hindi रिपोर्ट/ɾɪ.poːɾʈ/ #751
- Indonesian laporan/laˈporan/ #752
- Italian rapporto/rapˈpɔr.to/ report, statement, account #888
- Korean 보고[ˈpo̞(ː)ɡo̞] report, information #121
- Macedonian извештај[ˈizvɛʃtaj] account, report #1,067
- Malay lapor/ˈlapor/ #2,274
- Malayalam റിപ്പോർട്ട്/ripːoːrʈːɨ̆/ #469
- Norwegian rapporten/rɑˈpɔʈɳ̩/ a report #2,121
- Persian گزارش[ɡ̥o.zɒː.ɹeʃ] #452
- Polish raport/ˈra.pɔrt/ #1,505
- Portuguese relatório/ʁe.laˈtɔ.ɾju/ #1,217
- Romanian raport/raˈport/ #1,590
- Russian сообщение[sɐɐpˈɕːenʲɪje] report, communication, message #820
- Serbian izveštaj/îzʋeʃtaːj/ #1,161
- Slovenian poročilo/pɔrɔt͡ʃìːlɔ/ #470
- Spanish informe/inˈfoɾme/ #1,228
- Swedish rapport/rapˈɔʈː/ a report #1,882
- Tagalog balita/baˈlitaʔ/ information; news; report; tidings #541
- Telugu అని/ani/ as a marker of indirect report or command #39
- Turkish rapor/ɾa.pɔɾ/ report, account, relation, paper, a document… #1,172
- Ukrainian звіт[zʲʋʲit] report, account #2,472
- Vietnamese trình[t͡ɕïŋ˨˩] to report #515
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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