How to say “sort” in 39 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.
- τύπος/ˈti.pos/ Greek
- סוג/suɡ/ Hebrew
- തരം/t̪ɐɾɐm/ Malayalam
- రకాల/ˈrakaːla/ Telugu
“sort” in Turkish: çeşit · Greek: τύπος
It is commonest in Romanian, where fel is the 142nd most used word.
Sort in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans soort/ˈsʊərt/ sort, kind #458
- Albanian lloj/ɫɔj/ sort, kind, type #359
- Bengali একরকম/ækɾɔkom/ of a kind, of a sort, of a type #1,187
- Bosnian vrsta/ʋř̩ːsta/ kind, sort #716
- Bulgarian какъв[kɐˈkɤf] what, what kind of, what sort of, what type of #216
- Catalan tipus[ˈti.pus] type, sort, kind #411
- Chinese 一種/i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ kind; sort; type #1,218
- Croatian vrsta/ʋř̩ːsta/ kind, sort #676
- Danish ligesom[ˈlisʌm] sort of, kind of, as it were #277
- Dutch soort/soːrt/ sort, kind #389
- English ordered/ˈoɹ.dɚd/ To set in some sort of order #1,717
- Esperanto speco/ˈspet͡so/ type; kind; sort #2,420
- Estonian sorti/ˈsorti/ kind, sort, brand #1,250
- French type/tip/ type; sort, kind #362
- German art/aːrt/ kind, sort, type #471
- Greek τύπος/ˈti.pos/ sort, type, mould, stamp #328
- Hebrew סוג/suɡ/ #352
- Hindi ऐसा/ɛː.sɑː/ of this sort; of this kind #129
- Hungarian ilyesmi[ˈijɛʃmi] something like this, something of the… #948
- Icelandic tegund[ˈtʰɛːɣʏnt] kind, sort #1,226
- Indonesian bangsa/ˈbaŋsa/ a type of, kind, sort; like #1,636
- Korean 가지[ka̠d͡ʑi] kind, sort; variety #200
- Lithuanian rūšis[¹ˈruːʃʲɪs] kind; sort; variety #1,631
- Macedonian тип[tip] type, kind, sort #280
- Malay daging/ˈdaɡeŋ/ Any sort of flesh #686
- Malayalam തരം/t̪ɐɾɐm/ #305
- Persian نوع[nówʔ] type, kind, sort #555
- Portuguese tipos/ˈtʃipus/ kind; sort; type #712
- Romanian fel/ˈfel/ sort, type, kind #142
- Russian такой[tɐˈkoj] such, such, that/this kind/sort/type of,… #160
- Serbian vrsta/ʋř̩ːsta/ kind, sort #730
- Spanish resolver/resolˈbeɾ/ to resolve, sort out, settle, address,… #1,911
- Swedish ordna/ˈuːrdna/ to order, to sort, to put in order, to… #945
- Tamil எந்த/ɛnd̪ɐ/ which, what, what sort of, what kind of #57
- Telugu రకాల/ˈrakaːla/ sort, kind, class, style, quality #696
- Turkish çeşit/t͡ʃeˈʃit/ sort, kind, variety, type #832
- Ukrainian типу[ˈtɪpʊ] kind of, sort of, like, approximately. Used… #902
- Urdu مشعل/məʃ.(ʔ)əl/ a sort of cresset; a torch, flambeau #2,008
- Vietnamese thứ[tʰɨ˧˦] order, rank, sort, type, kind, category #84
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 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.