How to say “saturday” in 30 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.
- sábado/ˈsabado/ Spanish
- السبت/as.sabt/ Arabic
- 星期六/ɕiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵ li̯oʊ̯⁵¹/ Chinese
- 토요일[tʰo̞joiɭ] Korean
- शनिवार/ʃə.nɪ.ʋɑːɾ/ Hindi
- σάββατο/ˈsa.va.to/ Greek
“saturday” in Spanish: sábado · French: samedi · German: samstag · Italian: sabato · Chinese: 星期六 · Korean: 토요일 · Arabic: السبت · Hindi: शनिवार
It is commonest in Armenian, where շաբաթ is the 430th most used word.
Saturday in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans saterdag/ˈsɑːtərˌdɐx/ #1,047
- Arabic السبت/as.sabt/ Saturday, the cessation or last day of the… #910
- Armenian շաբաթ/ʃɑˈpʰɑt/ #430
- Basque larunbat/laɾumbat/ #1,218
- Bengali শনিবার/ʃonibaɾ/ #1,630
- Bulgarian събота[ˈsɤbotɐ] #1,334
- Catalan dissabte[diˈsap.tə] #1,993
- Chinese 星期六/ɕiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵ li̯oʊ̯⁵¹/ #1,447
- Danish lørdag/ˈlœɐ̯da/ #1,660
- Dutch zaterdag/ˈzaːtərˌdɑx/ #1,923
- English saturday/ˈsæt.ɚ.deɪ/ On Saturday #1,705
- French samedi/sam.di/ #1,730
- Galician sábado/ˈsabado/ #1,449
- German samstag/ˈzamstaːk/ #2,214
- Greek σάββατο/ˈsa.va.to/ #1,746
- Hindi शनिवार/ʃə.nɪ.ʋɑːɾ/ #1,439
- Indonesian sabtu/ˈsabtu/ #1,986
- Italian sabato/ˈsa.ba.to/ #1,890
- Korean 토요일[tʰo̞joiɭ] #1,299
- Macedonian сабота[ˈsabɔta] #1,216
- Malayalam ശനിയാഴ്ച/ʃɐnijaːɻt͡ʃɐ/ #889
- Norwegian lørdag/ˈløːˌɖɑːɡ/ #1,677
- Persian شنبه[ʃæm.bé] #828
- Portuguese sábado/ˈsa.ba.du/ on a Saturday #1,964
- Romanian sâmbătă/ˈsɨmbətə/ #1,821
- Slovenian sobota/sɔbòːta/ #1,465
- Spanish sábado/ˈsabado/ #1,964
- Swedish lördag/ˈløːrdɑːɡ/ #2,016
- Tamil சனிக்கிழமை/tʃɐnɪkːɪɻɐmɐɪ̯/ #868
- Turkish cumartesi/d͡ʒuˈmaɾ.te.si/ #1,313
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 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.