How to say “seven” in 49 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.
- siete/ˈsjete/ Spanish
- سبعة/sab.ʕa/ Arabic
- सात/sɑːt̪/ Hindi
- επτά/epˈta/ Greek
- შვიდი[ʃʷidi] Georgian
- յոթ/jotʰ/ Armenian
“seven” in Spanish: siete · French: sept · German: sieben · Italian: sette · Portuguese: sete · Arabic: سبعة · Hindi: सात · Turkish: yedi
It is commonest in Ukrainian, where сім is the 342nd most used word.
Seven in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans sewe/ˈsɪəvə/ #844
- Albanian shtatë/ˈʃtat(ə)/ #619
- Arabic سبعة/sab.ʕa/ #689
- Armenian յոթ/jotʰ/ #1,695
- Basque zazpi/s̻as̻pi/ #433
- Bengali সাত/ʃat̪/ #676
- Bosnian sedam/sêdam/ #709
- Bulgarian седем[ˈsɛdɛm] #859
- Catalan set[ˈsɛt] #451
- Croatian sedam/sêdam/ #765
- Czech sedm[ˈsɛdm̩] #909
- Danish syv[ˈsywˀ] #654
- Dutch weken/ʋeː.kə(n)/ week, period of seven days #564
- English week/wiːk/ Any period of seven consecutive days #443
- Esperanto sep/sep/ #790
- Estonian seitse/ˈsei̯tse/ #763
- Finnish seitsemän/ˈsei̯tsemæn/ #980
- French sept/sɛt/ #1,072
- Galician sete/ˈsɛte/ #587
- Georgian შვიდი[ʃʷidi] #425
- German sieben/ˈziːbən/ #926
- Greek επτά/epˈta/ #1,198
- Hebrew שבוע/ʃɔːˈvuːʕ/ week, period of seven days #515
- Hindi सात/sɑːt̪/ #755
- Hungarian hét[ˈheːt] #538
- Icelandic sjö[ˈsjœː] #392
- Indonesian tujuh/ˈtud͡ʒuh/ #874
- Italian sette/ˈsɛt.te/ #979
- Korean 일주일[iʎt͡ɕ͈uiɭ] A week; seven days #750
- Latvian septiņi[ˈsɛptiɲi] #1,274
- Lithuanian septyni[sʲɛpʲtʲiːˈnʲɪ] #905
- Macedonian седум[ˈsɛdum] #711
- Malay tujuh/ˈtud͡ʒoh/ #785
- Malayalam ഏഴ്/eːɻɨ/ #499
- Norwegian sju/ʃʉː/ #844
- Persian هفت[hǽft̪ʰ] #571
- Polish siedem/ˈɕɛ.dɛm/ #1,381
- Portuguese sete/ˈsɛ.t͡ʃi/ #823
- Russian семью[ˈsʲem⁽ʲ⁾jʊ] 7×, seven times as much #1,044
- Serbian sedam/sêdam/ #734
- Slovak sedem/seɟem/ #609
- Slovenian sedem/sèːdəm/ #375
- Spanish siete/ˈsjete/ #829
- Swedish sju/ɧʉː/ #658
- Tamil ஏழு/eːɻɯ/ #418
- Turkish yedi/je.di/ #632
- Ukrainian сім[sʲim] #342
- Urdu سات/sɑːt̪/ #491
- Vietnamese bảy[ʔɓaj˧˩] #1,272
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).
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