How to say “six” 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.
- seis/ˈseis/ Spanish
- шесть[ʂɛsʲtʲ] Russian
- ستة/sit.ta/ Arabic
- 여섯[jʌ̹sʰʌ̹t̚] Korean
- छह/t͡ʃʰəɦ/ Hindi
- έξι/ˈe.ksi/ Greek
“six” in Spanish: seis · French: six · German: sechs · Italian: sei · Portuguese: seis · Korean: 여섯 · Russian: шесть · Arabic: ستة
It is commonest in Italian, where sei is the 36th most used word.
Six in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans ses/ˈses/ #510
- Albanian gjashtë/ɟaʃt(ə)/ #476
- Arabic ستة/sit.ta/ #426
- Armenian վեց/vet͡sʰ/ #659
- Basque sei/s̺ei̯/ #304
- Bengali ছয়/t͡ʃʰɔe̯/ #1,509
- Bosnian šest/ʃêːst/ #563
- Bulgarian шест[ʃɛs] #577
- Catalan sis[ˈsis] #516
- Croatian šest/ʃêːst/ #542
- Czech šest[ˈʃɛst] #638
- Danish seks/sɛks/ #459
- Dutch zes/zɛs/ #488
- Esperanto ses/ses/ #773
- Estonian kuus/ˈkuːs/ #535
- Finnish kuusi/ˈkuːsi/ #713
- French six/sis/ #630
- Galician seis/ˈsejs/ #477
- Georgian ექვსი[e̞kʰʷsi] #1,469
- German sechs/zɛks/ #646
- Greek έξι/ˈe.ksi/ #595
- Hebrew שישה/ʃiʃˈʃaː/ #835
- Hindi छह/t͡ʃʰəɦ/ #683
- Hungarian hat[ˈhɒt] #559
- Icelandic sex[ˈsɛks] #270
- Indonesian enam/əˈnam/ #621
- Italian sei/ˈsɛj/ #36
- Korean 여섯[jʌ̹sʰʌ̹t̚] #827
- Latvian seši[sɛʃi] #1,084
- Lithuanian šeši[ʃʲɛˈʃʲɪ] #737
- Macedonian шест[ʃɛst] #510
- Malay enam/əˈnam/ #594
- Malayalam ആറ്/aːrɨ/ #454
- Norwegian seks/ˈsɛks/ #453
- Persian شش[ʃeʃ] #496
- Polish sześć/ˈʂɛɕt͡ɕ/ #952
- Portuguese seis/ˈsejs/ #518
- Russian шесть[ʂɛsʲtʲ] #805
- Serbian šest/ʃêːst/ #545
- Slovak šesť/ʃesc/ #461
- Slovenian šest/ʃéːst/ #292
- Spanish seis/ˈseis/ #525
- Swedish sex/sɛks/ #300
- Tagalog anim/ˈʔanim/ #674
- Tamil ஆறு/ɑːrɯ/ #290
- Telugu షట్/ˈʂaʈ/ #1,076
- Turkish altı[ɑ̈l̪ˠ.t̪ʰɯ̽] #446
- Ukrainian шість[ʃʲisʲtʲ] #863
- Vietnamese mục[mʊwk͡p̚˧˨ʔ] #551
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.