How to say “roof” in 31 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.
- 지붕[t͡ɕibuŋ] Korean
- छत/t͡ʃʰət̪/ Hindi
- גג/ɡaʁ/ Hebrew
- ছাদ/t͡ʃʰad̪/ Bengali
- മേൽക്കൂര/meːlkkuːɾɐ/ Malayalam
- дах[dax] Ukrainian
“roof” in French: toit · German: dach · Italian: tetto · Portuguese: telhado · Korean: 지붕 · Hindi: छत
It is commonest in Danish, where tage is the 121st most used word.
Roof in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans dak/dak/ #786
- Albanian çati/t͡ʃati/ #1,762
- Basque teilatu/tei̯latu/ tiled roof #1,626
- Bengali ছাদ/t͡ʃʰad̪/ #1,297
- Bosnian krov/krôːʋ/ #1,981
- Croatian krov/krôːʋ/ #2,075
- Danish tage/ta(ːˀ)/ #121
- Dutch dak/dɑk/ #1,329
- Esperanto tegmento/teɡˈmento/ #2,161
- Estonian katus/ˈkɑtus/ #2,247
- French toit/twa/ #1,682
- German dach/dax/ #1,632
- Hebrew גג/ɡaʁ/ #1,948
- Hindi छत/t͡ʃʰət̪/ roof, ceiling #875
- Indonesian atap[ˈatap̚] #1,397
- Italian tetto/ˈtet.to/ #1,847
- Korean 지붕[t͡ɕibuŋ] #1,674
- Latvian jumta/ˈjumta/ #1,214
- Lithuanian stogas[¹ˈstoːɡɐs] #2,097
- Malay bumbung/ˈbumboŋ/ #1,103
- Malayalam മേൽക്കൂര/meːlkkuːɾɐ/ #2,396
- Norwegian tak/ˈtɑːk/ #451
- Persian سقف[sæʁf] ceiling, roof #1,364
- Portuguese telhado/teˈʎa.du/ #2,282
- Serbian krov/krôːʋ/ #1,968
- Slovak strechu/strexu/ #1,331
- Slovenian streha/strèːxa/ #1,715
- Swedish taket/ˈtɑːkɛt/ a roof #1,493
- Tagalog bubong/buˈboŋ/ #1,064
- Tamil கூரை/kuːɾɐɪ̯/ sloping roof, commonly thatch with grass or… #747
- Ukrainian дах[dax] #2,072
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.