How to say “shop” in 40 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.
- магазин[məɡɐˈzʲin] Russian
- 商店/ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ ti̯ɛn⁵¹/ Chinese
- दुकान/d̪ʊ.kɑːn/ Hindi
- μαγαζί/ma.ɣaˈzi/ Greek
- მაღაზიაში[mäʁäziäʃi] Georgian
- խանութ/χɑˈnutʰ/ Armenian
“shop” in French: magasin · German: geschäft · Italian: negozio · Portuguese: loja · Chinese: 商店 · Russian: магазин · Hindi: दुकान · Greek: μαγαζί
It is commonest in Georgian, where მაღაზიაში is the 336th most used word.
Shop in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans winkel/ˈvəŋkəl/ A shop #1,633
- Albanian dyqan/dycan/ shop, store #1,049
- Armenian խանութ/χɑˈnutʰ/ shop, store #409
- Basque denda/denda/ #553
- Bengali দোকান/do.kan/ store, shop #748
- Bulgarian магазин[mɐɡɐˈzin] shop, store, market #1,212
- Catalan botiga[buˈti.ɣə] shop, store #1,223
- Chinese 商店/ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ ti̯ɛn⁵¹/ shop; store #886
- Danish butikken[b̥uˈtˢiɡ̊ən] store, shop #1,906
- Dutch winkel/ˈʋɪŋ.kəl/ shop, store #1,077
- Estonian poes/poe̯s/ #1,543
- French magasin/ma.ɡa.zɛ̃/ shop, store #1,208
- Galician bar/baɾ/ bar, coffee shop, café, pub #1,608
- Georgian მაღაზიაში[mäʁäziäʃi] shop, store #336
- German geschäft/ɡəˈʃɛft/ shop, store #862
- Greek μαγαζί/ma.ɣaˈzi/ shop, store, retail outlet #897
- Hindi दुकान/d̪ʊ.kɑːn/ #729
- Icelandic versla[ˈvɛ(r̥)stla] to shop #1,414
- Indonesian toko/ˈtoko/ shop; store #672
- Italian negozio/neˈɡɔt.t͡sjo/ shop, a store #1,013
- Korean 가게[ˈka̠(ː)ɡe̞] store, shop #381
- Latvian veikalā/ˈʋeikalaː/ shop, store #1,288
- Lithuanian parduotuvė[pɐrduɔˈtʊʋʲeː] shop, store #1,550
- Macedonian продавница[prɔˈdavnit͡sa] shop, store #1,014
- Malay kedai/kəˈdaj/ #599
- Malayalam കട/kɐɖɐ/ store, shop #526
- Norwegian butikken/bʉˈtɪkən/ a shop, or store #1,418
- Persian مغازه[mæ.ɢɒː.ze] #801
- Polish sklepu/ˈsklɛ.pu/ shop, store #1,893
- Portuguese loja/ˈlɔ.ʒɐ/ shop, store #837
- Romanian magazin/ˌmaɡaˈzin/ shop, supermarket #1,048
- Russian магазин[məɡɐˈzʲin] shop, store #1,361
- Slovenian trgovina/tərɡɔʋìːna/ #1,005
- Spanish bar/ˈbaɾ/ bar, coffee shop, café, pub #1,004
- Swedish handlar/ˈhandlar/ to shop, buy #438
- Tagalog tindahan/tinˈdahan/ store; retail shop #726
- Tamil கடை/kɐɖɐɪ̯/ shop, store, stall, bazaar, market #773
- Ukrainian магазин[mɐɦɐˈzɪn] shop, store #1,053
- Urdu دکان/d̪ʊ.kɑːn/ #1,135
- Vietnamese hiệu[hiəw˧˨ʔ] a shop; a store #453
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.