How to say “space” in 42 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.
- espacio/esˈpaθjo/ Spanish
- 자리[t͡ɕa̠ɾi] Korean
- अंतरिक्ष/ən.t̪ə.ɾɪkʂ/ Hindi
- חלל/χaˈlal/ Hebrew
- মহাকাশ/mohakaʃ/ Bengali
- விண்வெளி/ʋɪɳʋɛɭiː/ Tamil
“space” in Spanish: espacio · French: espace · German: raum · Italian: spazio · Korean: 자리 · Hindi: अंतरिक्ष
It is commonest in Slovenian, where prostor is the 344th most used word.
Space in other languages, A to Z
- Arabic موقف/maw.qif/ parking, parking space, parking lot #798
- Armenian առջև/ɑrˈt͡ʃʰev/ before, in front of in space #636
- Basque espazio/es̺ˈpas̻iˌo/ #1,131
- Bengali মহাকাশ/mohakaʃ/ #2,417
- Bosnian prostor/prǒːstor/ #1,567
- Bulgarian пространство[proˈstranstvo] #1,943
- Catalan espai[əsˈpaj] #781
- Chinese 太空/tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/ outer space #730
- Croatian prostor/prǒːstor/ #1,593
- Czech prostor[ˈprostor] #1,784
- Dutch naar/naːr/ to, towards in time, space, consequence,… #36
- English go/ɡoʊ/ To move through space #47
- Esperanto spaco/ˈspat͡so/ space, room #1,431
- Estonian ruumis/ˈruːmis/ place, location; space, room #1,350
- Finnish väliä/ˈvælɪæ/ gap, interspace, space, interstice #602
- French espace/ɛs.pas/ #1,306
- Galician espazo[esˈpaθʊ] #773
- German raum/ʁaʊ̯m/ #1,030
- Greek χώρο/ˈxoro/ area, space, room #839
- Hebrew חלל/χaˈlal/ space, void #1,641
- Hindi अंतरिक्ष/ən.t̪ə.ɾɪkʂ/ #1,491
- Icelandic pláss[ˈpʰlaus(ː)] room, space #899
- Indonesian ruang/ˈruaŋ/ #392
- Italian spazio/ˈspat.t͡sjo/ #1,018
- Korean 자리[t͡ɕa̠ɾi] space, place, site #626
- Latvian starp[staɾp] used to locate an object in the space defined… #269
- Macedonian простор[ˈprɔstɔr] #1,146
- Malay angkasa/aŋˈkasa/ space, sky #963
- Malayalam ഇടം/iɖɐm/ a space, place, area #833
- Norwegian plass/ˈplɑs/ room, space #529
- Persian فاصله[fɒː.se.lé] distance, space between things #561
- Polish miejsce/ˈmjɛj.st͡sɛ/ place, room, space #215
- Serbian prostor/prǒːstor/ #1,577
- Slovak priestor/prɪ̯estɔr/ #905
- Slovenian prostor/prɔ̀ːstɔr/ space, room #344
- Spanish espacio/esˈpaθjo/ #959
- Swedish rymden/ˈrymdɛn/ a space, a volume #2,399
- Tagalog pagitan/paˈɡitan/ space; gap; interval; distance between two… #706
- Tamil விண்வெளி/ʋɪɳʋɛɭiː/ #557
- Turkish arada/aɾaˈda/ space or time between two things #416
- Urdu وقفہ/ʋəqfə/ space, gap #2,418
- Vietnamese dưới[zɨəj˧˦] Lower in space: under, below, down #375
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.