How to say “stand” in 38 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.
- стать[statʲ] Russian
- 선[sʰʌ̹n] Korean
- ვდგავარ[vdɡäväɾ] Georgian
- կաց/ˈkatsʰ/ Armenian
- দাঁড়ানো/d̪ãɽano/ Bengali
- நில்/nɪl/ Tamil
“stand” in German: steht · Korean: 선 · Russian: стать
It is commonest in Malay, where diri is the 107th most used word.
Stand in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans staan/stɑːn/ to stand #167
- Albanian mbështetur/mbəʃtɛtuɾ/ to stand, to prop #2,089
- Arabic قام/qaː.ma/ to stand up; to get up #205
- Armenian կաց/ˈkatsʰ/ to stand, be standing #357
- Bengali দাঁড়ানো/d̪ãɽano/ to stand, to stand up #2,191
- Bosnian ustani/ˈustɐnɪ/ to stand up, rise, get up #1,289
- Bulgarian стоя[stoˈjɤ̟] to stand still, to stay #1,133
- Chinese 起立/t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹ li⁵¹/ to stand up; to rise #2,109
- Croatian ustani/ˈustɐnɪ/ to stand up, rise, get up #1,441
- Czech stát[ˈstaːt] to stand #425
- Danish står[ˈsd̥ɒˀ] to stand #224
- Dutch staat/staːt/ to stand, to be upright #186
- English afford/əˈfoɹd/ To incur, stand, or bear without serious… #1,628
- Esperanto stariĝu/staˈridʒu/ to stand up #2,315
- Estonian seisma/ˈsei̯smɑ/ to stand, to stop #850
- Finnish kestä/ˈkestæˣ/ to stand, withstand, endure, hold up, stand up #683
- Galician apoio/ˈapoio/ rest, stand #1,306
- Georgian ვდგავარ[vdɡäväɾ] to stand #798
- German steht[ʃteːt] to stand #289
- Hebrew כנה/kaˈna/ A mount, a stand, a base: a thing used as a… #1,240
- Hungarian állj[ˈaːjː] to stand #354
- Icelandic standa[ˈstanta] to stand, to be standing #399
- Korean 선[sʰʌ̹n] to stand #1,281
- Latvian stāvi/ˈstaːʋi/ to stand #859
- Lithuanian stovėti[stoː¹ˈʋʲeːtʲɪ] to stand #1,558
- Macedonian стој[stɔj] to stand #613
- Malay diri/ˈdiri/ to stand #107
- Malayalam നിൽക്ക്/n̪ilkkɨ/ to stand #154
- Norwegian står/ˈstoːr/ to stand #193
- Portuguese levantar/le.vɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/ to stand up; to get up #1,688
- Russian стать[statʲ] to stand #494
- Serbian ustani/ˈustɐnɪ/ to stand up, rise, get up #1,360
- Slovak stáť/staːc/ to stand #521
- Swedish står/ˈstoːr/ stand; be in an upright position #206
- Tagalog tumayo/tumaˈjoʔ/ to stand; to stand up #475
- Tamil நில்/nɪl/ to stand #281
- Ukrainian стояти[stɔˈjate] to stand #1,277
- Vietnamese đứng[ʔɗɨŋ˧˦] to stand #346
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), 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.