How to say “situation” in 43 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.
- situación/sitwaˈθjon/ Spanish
- ситуация[sʲɪtʊˈat͡sɨjə] Russian
- 情況/t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵ kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/ Chinese
- स्थिति/st̪ʰɪ.t̪iː/ Hindi
- സ്ഥിതി/st̪(ʰ)id̪i/ Malayalam
“situation” in Spanish: situación · French: situation · Italian: situazione · Portuguese: situação · Chinese: 情況 · Russian: ситуация · Hindi: स्थिति · Turkish: durum
It is commonest in Hungarian, where helyzet is the 348th most used word.
Situation in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans situasie/ˌsətʃuˈɑːsi/ #553
- Albanian gjendje/ɟɛndjɛ/ situation, state, condition #613
- Bengali অবস্থা/ɔbost̪ʰa/ state, condition, situation, circumstances #228
- Bosnian sranje/srǎːɲe/ A very difficult situation, big trouble #213
- Bulgarian ситуация[sitoˈat͡sijɐ] #1,209
- Catalan situació[si.tu.ə.siˈo] #776
- Chinese 情況/t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵ kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/ situation; status; circumstances #830
- Croatian sranje/srǎːɲe/ A very difficult situation, big trouble #256
- Czech situaci[ˈsɪtuat͡sɪ] #1,156
- Dutch geval/ɣəˈvɑl/ case, situation, instance #548
- English case/keɪs/ An actual event, situation, or fact #347
- Esperanto situacio/situaˈt͡sio/ situation, state of affairs #1,017
- Estonian olukord/ˈoluˌkord̥/ #842
- Finnish tilanne/ˈtilɑnːeˣ/ situation, state of affairs, circumstances #727
- French situation/si.tɥa.sjɔ̃/ #755
- Galician situación/sitwaˈθjoŋ/ #464
- German dran/ˈdɾɑːn/ to be in a particular situation #412
- Hebrew מצב/maˈt͡sav/ a shape, a situation, a state #494
- Hindi स्थिति/st̪ʰɪ.t̪iː/ #454
- Hungarian helyzet[ˈhɛjzɛt] #348
- Italian situazione/si.tu.atˈt͡sjo.ne/ situation, position, condition, circumstances #642
- Korean 상황[sʰa̠ŋβwa̠ŋ] conditions, the situation #870
- Latvian situācija/ˈsituaːt͡sija/ #1,197
- Lithuanian situacija[sʲɪtʊ.²ˈɑːt͡sʲɪjɛ] #805
- Macedonian случај[ˈsɫut͡ʃaj] case, situation #272
- Malay situasi/situˈasi/ #771
- Malayalam സ്ഥിതി/st̪(ʰ)id̪i/ #675
- Norwegian situasjonen/sɪtʉɑˈʃuːnn̩/ a situation #1,136
- Persian اوضاع[ʔow.zɒ́ːʔ] condition, situation, state #414
- Polish sytuacji/sɘ.tuˈa.t͡sji/ #1,172
- Portuguese situação/si.tu.aˈsɐ̃w̃/ #657
- Romanian cazul/ˈkazul/ case, circumstance, situation #359
- Russian ситуация[sʲɪtʊˈat͡sɨjə] #1,632
- Serbian sranje/srǎːɲe/ A very difficult situation, big trouble #259
- Slovak situácia/ˈsituaːt͡sia/ #823
- Spanish situación/sitwaˈθjon/ situation, scenario, picture #752
- Swedish situationen/ˌsɪtʉasˈxuːnɛn/ a situation #1,588
- Tagalog sitwasyon/sitwasˈjon/ #619
- Tamil நிலை/nɪlɐɪ̯/ condition, state, situation, status #540
- Telugu పరిస్థితి/ˈparisˌtʰiti/ state, situation, condition #319
- Turkish durum/duˈɾum/ situation; status, condition #375
- Ukrainian ситуація[setʊˈat͡sʲijɐ] #1,463
- Vietnamese nỗi[noj˦ˀ˥] status; situation; state #839
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