How to say “soldier” in 48 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.
- soldados/solˈdados/ Spanish
- солдат[sɐɫˈdat] Russian
- جندي/d͡ʒun.dijj/ Arabic
- 士兵/ʂɻ̩⁵¹ piŋ⁵⁵/ Chinese
- सैनिकों/sɛː.nɪ.kõː/ Hindi
- στρατιώτες/ˌstratiˈotes/ Greek
“soldier” in Spanish: soldados · French: soldats · German: soldaten · Italian: soldato · Portuguese: soldado · Chinese: 士兵 · Russian: солдат · Arabic: جندي
It is commonest in Persian, where نفر is the 116th most used word.
Soldier in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans soldate/sɔlˈdɑːtə/ #624
- Albanian ushtar/uʃtaɾ/ #820
- Arabic جندي/d͡ʒun.dijj/ #1,186
- Armenian զինվոր/zinˈvoɾ/ #916
- Basque soldadu/s̺oldadu/ #503
- Bengali সেনা/ʃena/ army; a soldier #1,043
- Bosnian vojnik/ʋǒjniːk/ #1,416
- Bulgarian войник[vojˈnik] soldier, fighter #1,547
- Catalan soldats[sulˈdats] #891
- Chinese 士兵/ʂɻ̩⁵¹ piŋ⁵⁵/ #417
- Croatian vojnik/ʋǒjniːk/ #1,429
- Czech voják[ˈvojaːk] #2,097
- Danish soldater/solˈdaːˀdɐ/ #1,291
- Dutch soldaten/sɔlˈdaːtən/ soldier, private #1,276
- Esperanto soldatoj/solˈdatoɪ/ #851
- Estonian sõdur/ˈsɤd̥ur/ soldier, warrior #1,138
- Finnish sotilas/ˈsotilɑs/ #2,099
- French soldats/sɔlˈda/ #1,473
- Galician soldado/solˈdado/ #694
- Georgian ჯარისკაცი[d͡ʒäɾiskʼät͡sʰi] #670
- German soldaten/zɔlˈdaːtn/ #1,305
- Greek στρατιώτες/ˌstratiˈotes/ #1,236
- Hebrew חייל/χaˈjal/ #1,135
- Hindi सैनिकों/sɛː.nɪ.kõː/ #1,229
- Hungarian katona[ˈkɒtonɒ] #1,526
- Indonesian militer[miˈli.tɛr] #933
- Italian soldato/solˈda.to/ #1,522
- Korean 군인[kunin] military personnel; soldier #1,331
- Latvian kareivji/ˈkareiʋji/ soldier, private rank in the army; a soldier… #2,102
- Lithuanian karys[kɐ²ˈrʲiːs] warrior, soldier #1,070
- Macedonian војници[ˈvɔjnit͡si] #752
- Malay askar/ˈaskar/ #733
- Malayalam പട്ടാളക്കാരൻ/paʈʈaːɭakkaːɾan/ #2,046
- Norwegian soldater/sʊlˈdɑːtər/ #1,287
- Persian نفر[næ.fǽɹ] #116
- Portuguese soldado/sowˈda.du/ #1,427
- Romanian soldat[solˈdat] #1,186
- Russian солдат[sɐɫˈdat] #1,774
- Serbian vojnik/ʋǒjniːk/ #1,462
- Slovak vojak/vɔjak/ #764
- Slovenian vojak/ʋɔjàːk/ #517
- Spanish soldados/solˈdados/ #1,387
- Swedish soldater/ˈsɔldatɛr/ a soldier #1,391
- Tagalog sundalo/sunˈdalo/ #436
- Tamil சிப்பாய்/tʃɪpːɑːj/ soldier, sepoy #1,064
- Turkish asker/asˈceɾ/ #987
- Ukrainian солдат[sɔɫˈdat] #1,376
- Urdu سپاہی/sɪ.pɑː.ɦiː/ soldier, fighter #636
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
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