How to say “second-person” 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.
Second-person in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian doni/ˈdoni/ second-person plural present… #229
- Arabic عليكم/ʕalajkum/ second-person plural masculine of عَلَى #440
- Armenian լինես/liˈnes/ second-person singular future… #414
- Basque zure/s̻uɾe/ Second-person singular personal pronoun; you #13
- Bengali যেতে/d͡ʒet̪e/ second-person familiar habitual/conditional… #63
- Bosnian ste/ˈstɛ/ second-person plural present of bȉti #44
- Bulgarian ти[ti] You, thou; the second-person singular pronoun… #14
- Catalan vau[ˈbaw] second-person plural present indicative of… #660
- Croatian ste/ˈstɛ/ second-person plural present of bȉti #42
- Czech nejsi[ˈnɛjsɪ] second-person singular present indicative of… #428
- Dutch jij/jɛi̯/ you; second-person singular subjective… #40
- Finnish etsit/ˈetsɪt/ second-person singular present/past… #2,142
- French parlez/paʁ.le/ second-person plural present… #832
- Galician vós/ˈbɔs/ second-person plural nominative personal… #264
- Georgian გილოცავ[ɡ̊iɫo̞t͡sʰäv] first-person singular present indicative with… #693
- Hebrew אותך/otˈχa/ Form of אֵת including second-person masculine… #32
- Hungarian igazad[ˈiɡɒzɒd] second-person singular single-possession… #501
- Icelandic ert[ɛr̥t] you are, second-person of vera #26
- Indonesian kau/ˈkau̯/ Second-person singular pronoun: you, your,… #2
- Italian hai/ˈaj/ second-person singular present indicative of… #32
- Korean 너[nʌ̹] second-person singular informal pronoun; you #61
- Latvian esi/ˈesi/ are; second-person singular present… #34
- Lithuanian matai/mɐˈtɐɪ/ second-person singular present of matýti #200
- Malay you/ˈjou/ second-person pronoun #339
- Persian مرا[mǽ.ɹɒː] a second-person pronoun; تو as a grammatical… #1,211
- Portuguese tu/ˈtu/ second-person singular prepositional pronoun #54
- Russian тебя[tʲæˈbʲa] second-person singular, nominative case: you,… #25
- Serbian ste/ˈstɛ/ second-person plural present of bȉti #42
- Slovak mlč/ml̩t͡ʃ/ second-person singular imperative of mlčať #1,889
- Slovenian si/sí/ second-person singular present of bíti #9
- Spanish vos/ˈbos/ you, familiar form of the second-person… #1,315
- Tagalog niyo/niˈo/ second-person plural indirect personal noun:… #59
- Turkish misin/miˈsin/ second-person singular simple of mi #50
- Ukrainian знаєш[ˈznajeʃ] second-person singular present of зна́ти impf #94
- Urdu آپ/ɑːp/ second-person subjective or objective… #5
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).
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