How to say “return” in 47 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.
- volver/bolˈbeɾ/ Spanish
- вернуться[vʲɪrˈnut͡sːə] Russian
- लौट/lɔːʈ/ Hindi
- שב/ˈʃav/ Hebrew
- დაბრუნება[d̥äbɾune̞bä] Georgian
- վերադառնալ/veɾɑdɑrˈnɑl/ Armenian
“return” in Spanish: volver · French: retour · German: zurückkommen · Italian: tornare · Portuguese: volta · Russian: вернуться · Hindi: लौट · Turkish: dönüş
It is commonest in Bengali, where ফিরে is the 98th most used word.
Return in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian urdhër/uɾðəɾ/ return, favour, answer #981
- Arabic مقابل/mu.qaː.bil/ in return for, in exchange for, as a… #438
- Armenian վերադառնալ/veɾɑdɑrˈnɑl/ to return, to come back #581
- Basque itzuli/it͡s̻uli/ to return, to come back #125
- Bengali ফিরে/fiɾe/ to return #98
- Bosnian vratiti/ʋrǎːtiti/ to return, come back #324
- Bulgarian върна[ˈvɤrnɐ] to return #251
- Catalan tornar[turˈna] to return, to go/come back #211
- Chinese 回家/xu̯eɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/ to return home; to go home; to come home #80
- Croatian vratiti/ʋrǎːtiti/ to return, come back #275
- Czech vrátit[ˈvraːcɪt] to return #466
- Danish gengæld/ɡɛn.ɡɛlˀ/ return, reciprocation #2,105
- Dutch terugkomen/təˈrʏxˌkoːmə(n)/ to come back, to return #1,597
- English hired/ˈhaɪɹd/ To obtain the services of in return for fixed… #1,988
- Esperanto revenos/reˈvenos/ to come back, return #284
- Finnish palata/ˈpɑlɑtɑˣ/ to return, come back, go back, get back #718
- French retour/ʁə.tuʁ/ #499
- Galician volta/ˈbɔlta/ to return; to come back; to go back #296
- Georgian დაბრუნება[d̥äbɾune̞bä] to return, to give back #457
- German zurückkommen[t͡suˈʁʏkˌkɔmən] to return #2,078
- Greek γυρίσω/jiˈriso/ to turn, return, switch #718
- Hebrew שב/ˈʃav/ to return #679
- Hindi लौट/lɔːʈ/ to return #1,173
- Hungarian cserébe[ˈt͡ʃɛreːbɛ] in return, in exchange #1,636
- Icelandic skila[ˈscɪːla] to give back, to return #720
- Indonesian pulang/ˈpulaŋ/ to return, to go home, to go back #224
- Italian tornare/torˈna.re/ to return, to come back #359
- Latvian atgriezties/ˈatɡriezties/ to return, to come back #626
- Lithuanian grįžti[ˈɡʲrʲǐːʃʲtʲɪ] to return #297
- Macedonian врати[ˈvrati] to return, restore, give back #165
- Malay pulang/ˈpulaŋ/ to return, to go back, to go home #257
- Persian برگرد/bæɾɡæɾd/ to return, to come back #448
- Polish powrotem/pɔˈvrɔ.tɛm/ #610
- Portuguese volta/ˈvɔw.tɐ/ to return; to come back #212
- Romanian întors/ɨnˈtors/ to return, come back #467
- Russian вернуться[vʲɪrˈnut͡sːə] to return, to come back #458
- Serbian vratiti/ʋrǎːtiti/ to return, come back #390
- Slovak vrátiť/ˈvraːcic/ to return #274
- Spanish volver/bolˈbeɾ/ to return, to revert, to get back #300
- Swedish tillbaka/tɪlˈbɑːka/ back, in return #105
- Tagalog bumalik/bumaˈlik/ to return; to come back #230
- Tamil திரும்பு/t̪ɪɾʊmbɯ/ to turn, turn back, return #890
- Telugu మరలు/maɾalu/ to turn, return, go back #1,543
- Turkish dönüş[dønyʃ] #1,677
- Ukrainian результат[rezʊlʲˈtat] effect, result, return, outcome #1,967
- Urdu واپسی/ʋɑːpsiː/ return, coming-back #803
- Vietnamese trả[t͡ɕaː˧˩] to return; to give back #242
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) 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.