How to say “sole” in 30 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.
“sole” in Russian: единственный
It is commonest in Bosnian, where jedini is the 422nd most used word.
Sole in other languages, A to Z
- Armenian միակ/miˈɑk/ only, sole #275
- Bosnian jedini/jědiːniː/ sole, only #422
- Chinese 唯一/weɪ̯³⁵ i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹/ only; sole; unique #109
- Croatian jedini/jědiːniː/ sole, only #442
- Czech jediný[ˈjɛɟɪniː] only, sole #553
- Danish eneste/eːnəstə/ only, sole #214
- Esperanto sola/ˈsola/ lone, alone, only, sole #205
- Estonian ainus/ˈɑi̯nus/ only, sole #363
- Finnish ainoa/ˈɑi̯noɑ/ only, sole, lone #323
- Galician solar/soˈlaɾ/ to sole #2,331
- Georgian ერთადერთი[e̞ɾtʰäde̞ɾtʰi] only, sole #323
- German einzige[ˈʔaɪntsɪɡə] only, sole #421
- Greek μοναδική/ˌmonaðiˈci/ unique, sole #1,696
- Hindi एकमात्र/eːk.mɑːt̪.ɾᵊ/ only, sole, single #1,528
- Hungarian egyetlen[ˈɛɟːɛtlɛn] only, sole, single #224
- Icelandic einasta[ˈeiːnasta] only, sole #1,028
- Italian unico/ˈu.ni.ko/ only, sole, one, single #550
- Lithuanian vieni[vʲiəˈn̪ʲɪ] one, only, sole, alone, single #592
- Macedonian единствен[ˈɛdinstvɛn] sole, only #1,033
- Norwegian eneste/ˈeːnəstə/ only, sole #211
- Romanian singur/ˈsin.ɡur/ single, only, sole #257
- Russian единственный[(j)ɪˈdʲinstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj] sole, only, unique #664
- Serbian jedini/jědiːniː/ sole, only #444
- Slovak jediný/ˈjeɟɪˌniː/ only, sole #341
- Slovenian sam/sáːm/ alone, sole #112
- Spanish único/ˈuniko/ only; single; sole #387
- Swedish enda/²ɛnda/ only, sole; also in the masculine form ende #215
- Tagalog nag-iisa/naɡˌʔiʔiˈsa/ sole; only #1,100
- Ukrainian єдиний[jeˈdɪnei̯] only, sole #791
- Vietnamese đế[ʔɗe˧˦] #1,159
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 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.