How to say “run” in 48 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.
- corre/ˈkore/ Spanish
- бежать[bʲɪˈʐatʲ] Russian
- جرى/d͡ʒa.raː/ Arabic
- रन/ɾən/ Hindi
- τρέχει/ˈtreçi/ Greek
- ஓடு/oːɖɯ/ Tamil
“run” in Spanish: corre · French: courant · Portuguese: correr · Russian: бежать · Arabic: جرى · Hindi: रन · Turkish: koş · Greek: τρέχει
It is commonest in Tagalog, where takbo is the 245th most used word.
Run in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans hardloop/ˈhɐrtlʊəp/ #587
- Albanian ndjek/ndjɛk/ to run #685
- Arabic جرى/d͡ʒa.raː/ to run #837
- Armenian փախչել/pʰɑχˈt͡ʃʰel/ to run away, to escape, to flee #654
- Basque funtzionatu/funt͡s̻ionatu/ to function, to run, to work #904
- Bengali পরিচালিত/poɾit͡ʃalit̪o/ driven, run #1,586
- Bosnian pobjeći/pǒbjet͡ɕi/ to flee, run away #1,367
- Bulgarian бягам[ˈbʲa̟ɡɐm] to run away, to flee, to escape #2,290
- Catalan córrer[ˈko.rə] to run #876
- Chinese 逃跑/tʰɑʊ̯³⁵ pʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ to run away; to flee; to escape #530
- Croatian pobjeći/pǒbjet͡ɕi/ to flee, run away #888
- Czech běž[ˈbjɛʃ] to run #397
- Danish leder/leːdər/ to manage, run #361
- Dutch loopt/loːpt/ to run, go fast on one's own legs #654
- Esperanto kuru/ˈkuru/ to run #519
- Estonian jooksma/ˈjoːksmɑ/ to run #1,478
- Finnish sujuu/ˈsujuː/ to go, run #1,462
- French courant/ku.ʁɑ̃/ to run #604
- Galician corre/ˈkore̝/ to run #1,168
- German läuft[lɔʏ̯ft] third-person singular present of laufen 'to… #479
- Greek τρέχει/ˈtreçi/ to run, move quickly, sprint #479
- Hebrew ברח/baˈʁaχ/ to run away #1,155
- Hindi रन/ɾən/ #1,985
- Hungarian fuss[ˈfuʃː] to run #1,740
- Icelandic hlaupa[ˈl̥œiːpa] to run #738
- Indonesian jalankan/d͡ʒaˈlankan/ to run, operate #1,870
- Italian scappare/skapˈpa.re/ to run away, flee, escape, scarper or… #1,026
- Latvian bēgt[ˈbɛ̂ːkt] to flee, run away, escape #1,627
- Lithuanian bėk[¹ˈbʲeːk] to run #382
- Macedonian бегај[ˈbɛɡaj] to run away #447
- Malay lari/lari/ to run #284
- Malayalam ഓടുക/oːɖuɡɐ/ to run #2,457
- Norwegian løp/ˈløːp/ to run #519
- Polish uciec/ˈu.t͡ɕɛt͡s/ to run away, to flee #1,077
- Portuguese correr/koˈʁe(ʁ)/ to run #533
- Romanian fugi/fuˈd͡ʒi/ to run #702
- Russian бежать[bʲɪˈʐatʲ] to run, to be running #1,604
- Serbian pobeći/pǒbet͡ɕi/ to flee, run away #1,859
- Slovak ujsť/ujsc/ to flee, to escape, to run away #1,012
- Slovenian tvegati/tʋèːɡati/ to risk, to run the risk of #807
- Spanish corre/ˈkore/ to run, to jog #1,167
- Swedish spring/ˈsprɪŋ/ to run #771
- Tagalog takbo/takˈbo/ run; act of running #245
- Tamil ஓடு/oːɖɯ/ to run, flee, fasten #756
- Telugu కారు/kaːɾu/ to flow, drop, run out, run in drops, trickle #107
- Turkish koş/koʃ/ to run #1,084
- Ukrainian бігти[ˈbʲiɦte] to run #1,855
- Vietnamese lan[laːn˧˧] to spread; to run #1,141
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 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.