How to say “sell” in 41 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.
- vender/benˈdeɾ/ Spanish
- продать[prɐˈdatʲ] Russian
- 出售/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/ Chinese
- बेच/beːt͡ʃ/ Hindi
- מכר/maˈχaʁ/ Hebrew
- გაყიდე[ɡ̊äχʼide̞] Georgian
“sell” in Spanish: vender · French: vendre · German: verkaufen · Italian: vendere · Portuguese: vender · Chinese: 出售 · Russian: продать · Hindi: बेच
It is commonest in Basque, where saldu is the 358th most used word.
Sell in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian shitur/ʃituɾ/ to sell, estimate #962
- Arabic راج/raː.d͡ʒa/ to have currency, to circulate, to sell well,… #1,962
- Basque saldu/s̺aldu/ to sell #358
- Bosnian prodati/prǒdati/ to sell #1,522
- Bulgarian продам[proˈdam] to sell #2,329
- Catalan vendre[ˈbɛn.dɾə] to sell #936
- Chinese 出售/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/ to sell; to offer to sell; to put up for sale #1,530
- Croatian prodati/prǒdati/ to sell #1,215
- Czech prodat[ˈprodat] to sell #1,636
- Danish sælge/sɛlɣə/ to sell #834
- Dutch verkocht/vərˈkɔxt/ to sell #1,117
- Esperanto vendas/ˈvendas/ to sell #1,740
- Finnish myydä/ˈmyːdæˣ/ to sell #1,543
- French vendre/vɑ̃dʁ/ to sell #989
- Galician vender/benˈdeɾ/ to sell #989
- Georgian გაყიდე[ɡ̊äχʼide̞] to sell #796
- German verkaufen/fɛɐ̯ˈkaʊ̯fən/ to sell #910
- Hebrew מכר/maˈχaʁ/ to sell #2,044
- Hindi बेच/beːt͡ʃ/ to sell #833
- Icelandic selja[ˈsɛlja] to sell #556
- Indonesian menjual[mənˈd͡ʒual] to sell, to market #730
- Italian vendere/ˈven.de.re/ to sell #1,624
- Latvian pārdot/ˈpaːrduot/ to sell #1,141
- Lithuanian parduoti[pɐɾˈduɔtʲɪ] to sell #827
- Macedonian продаде[ˈprɔdadɛ] to sell #1,533
- Malay menjual/mənˈd͡ʒual/ to sell, to market #815
- Norwegian selge/ˈsɛlːə/ to sell #820
- Persian فروش[fo.ɹúːʃ] to sell #813
- Polish sprzedać/ˈspʂɛ.dat͡ɕ/ to sell #1,917
- Portuguese vender/vẽˈde(ʁ)/ to sell #1,038
- Romanian vinde/ˈvinde/ to sell #1,311
- Russian продать[prɐˈdatʲ] to sell #1,862
- Serbian prodao/ˈprodɐo/ to sell #1,531
- Slovak predať/predac/ to sell #806
- Spanish vender/benˈdeɾ/ to sell #1,477
- Swedish sälja/ˈsɛlːˌja/ to sell #866
- Tagalog ibenta/ʔiˈbenta/ to sell #935
- Telugu అమ్మిన/ˈammina/ to sell #814
- Turkish satmak/satˈmak/ to sell, to market #2,274
- Ukrainian продати[prɔˈdate] to sell #1,601
- Vietnamese bán[ʔɓaːn˧˦] to sell #514
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 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.