How to say “sense” in 45 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.
- իմաստ/iˈmɑst/ Armenian
- почуття[pɔt͡ʃʊˈtʲːa] Ukrainian
- حس[hes(ː)] Persian
“sense” in German: sinn · Italian: senso · Portuguese: sinto
It is commonest in Catalan, where sento is the 164th most used word.
Sense in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans sin/sən/ meaning, sense #621
- Arabic معنى/maʕ.nan/ meaning, import, sense #533
- Armenian իմաստ/iˈmɑst/ sense, meaning #1,150
- Basque sen/s̺en/ common sense #1,354
- Bosnian smisao/smîːsao/ sense, meaning #1,883
- Bulgarian значение[znɐˈt͡ʃɛniɛ] significance, meaning, sense #318
- Catalan sento[ˈsen.tu] to sense #164
- Chinese 感到/kän²¹⁴⁻²¹ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/ to feel; to sense; to have a feeling that #152
- Croatian smisao/smîːsao/ sense, meaning #1,794
- Czech smysl[ˈsmɪsl̩] sense, meaning #623
- Danish føler[ˈføːlɐ] to feel, sense #421
- Dutch smaak/smaːk/ taste, sense of taste #2,029
- English listen/ˈlɪsən/ To use one's sense of hearing and auditory… #229
- Esperanto tiele/tiˈele/ in the strict sense of: “in such a manner”,… #1,424
- Estonian meelde/mˈeːld̥e/ #611
- Finnish tunnen/ˈtunnen/ to feel, sense #444
- German sinn/zɪn/ #803
- Greek έχει/ˈe.çi/ to have/hold, in the sense of holding property #50
- Hebrew הרגיש/hiʁˈɡiʃ/ feel, sense #1,491
- Hindi भावना/bʱɑːʋ.nɑː/ feeling, sense #1,154
- Hungarian egyet[ˈɛɟːɛt] expressing a semelfactive sense, a short… #297
- Icelandic sé[ˈsjɛː] to see, to sense or perceive with one's eyes #52
- Indonesian lahir/ˈlahir/ physical in the material sense, corporeal;… #826
- Italian senso/ˈsɛn.so/ #510
- Korean 리[ɾi] way, reason, sense #513
- Latvian sajūta/ˈsajuːta/ #712
- Lithuanian jausmas[²ˈjɛʊˑsmɐs] feeling, emotion, sense #646
- Macedonian смисла[ˈsmisɫa] sense, meaning, logic, purpose #604
- Malay terasa/tə.ra.sa/ to feel; to sense #1,044
- Malayalam ചെവി/t͡ʃeʋi/ ear; the sense organ responsible for hearing #701
- Norwegian aner/ˈɑːnər/ guess, sense #608
- Persian حس[hes(ː)] #256
- Polish sensu/ˈsɛn.su/ #1,129
- Portuguese sinto/ˈsĩ.tu/ to sense; to feel #333
- Romanian sens/ˈsens/ sense, meaning #901
- Russian уже[ʊˈʐɛ] already; carries the sense of the perfect… #63
- Serbian smisao/smîːsao/ sense, meaning #1,840
- Slovenian pamet/pàːmɛt/ intelligence, sense #615
- Spanish gusta/ˈɡusta/ to like in a general sense #206
- Swedish känner/ˈɕɛnɛr/ to feel, to sense #133
- Tagalog kahulugan/kahuluˈɡan/ meaning; sense #839
- Tamil இந்தா/ɪnd̪ɑː/ interjection used in the sense of "here! take… #627
- Ukrainian почуття[pɔt͡ʃʊˈtʲːa] sense, feeling #1,024
- Urdu عقل/(ʔ)əql/ common sense #1,448
- Vietnamese nghĩa[ŋiə˦ˀ˥] a meaning; a sense #326
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), 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).
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