How to say “state” in 52 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.
- состояние[səstɐˈjænʲɪje] Russian
- राज्य/ɾɑːd͡ʒ.jᵊ/ Hindi
- κατάσταση/kaˈta.sta.si/ Greek
- պետական/petɑˈkɑn/ Armenian
- അവസ്ഥ/ɐʋɐst̪(ʰ)ɐ/ Malayalam
- పరిస్థితి/ˈparisˌtʰiti/ Telugu
“state” in Italian: stata · Russian: состояние · Hindi: राज्य · Greek: κατάσταση
It is commonest in Estonian, where juba is the 85th most used word.
State in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans staat/stɑːt/ #474
- Albanian si[si] how; in what way; in what state #26
- Arabic أبي/ʔabiː/ genitive construct state of أَب #103
- Armenian պետական/petɑˈkɑn/ state; national; public #834
- Basque estatu/es̺tatu/ #410
- Bengali বলতে/bolt̪e/ to speak, say, state, tell #72
- Bosnian kažem/ˈkaʒɛm/ to say, to state #186
- Bulgarian състояние[sɐstoˈja̟niɛ] state, condition #809
- Catalan està[əsˈta] to be; to currently be in a state or have a… #39
- Chinese 表示/pi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɻ̩⁵¹/ to express; to state; to indicate; to opine;… #493
- Croatian kaže/ˈkaʒɛ/ to say, to state #217
- Czech státní[ˈstaːtɲiː] #1,716
- Danish føre/føːrə/ state of the roads #1,178
- Dutch orde/ˈɔr.də/ state of being ordered, arranged, in line… #326
- English on/ɑn/ To an operating state #21
- Esperanto situacio/situaˈt͡sio/ situation, state of affairs #1,017
- Estonian juba/ˈjub̥ɑ/ Indicating that an activity, state, etc. has… #85
- Finnish tilanne/ˈtilɑnːeˣ/ situation, state of affairs, circumstances #727
- French vie/vi/ life, the state of organisms prior to death #128
- Galician estados/esˈtados/ #882
- Georgian მდგომარეობა[mdɡo̞mäɾe̞o̞bä] condition, shape, state, status, situation,… #909
- German leben/ˈleːbən/ a state in which organic entities such as… #134
- Greek κατάσταση/kaˈta.sta.si/ state, condition #511
- Hebrew ידי/jadi/ plural construct state form of יָד #268
- Hindi राज्य/ɾɑːd͡ʒ.jᵊ/ state, kingdom #669
- Hungarian állapotban[ˈaːlːɒpodbɒn] state, condition #2,038
- Icelandic ástand[ˈauː.stant] state, condition #1,504
- Indonesian hal/ˈhal/ circumstance, state, condition #64
- Italian stata/ˈsta.ta/ #156
- Korean 특별[tʰɯk̚p͈jʌ̹ɭ] The state or quality of being special #1,033
- Latvian valsts[vàlsts] state, country #590
- Lithuanian rodos[¹ˈroːdoːs] expresses uncertainty about a state that… #652
- Macedonian состојба[ˈsɔstɔjba] state, condition #718
- Malay presiden/preˈsiden/ The head of state of a republic that is… #465
- Malayalam അവസ്ഥ/ɐʋɐst̪(ʰ)ɐ/ #285
- Norwegian stand/ˈstɑn/ condition, order, state #1,144
- Persian حال[hɒːl̥] condition; state #112
- Polish przecież/ˈpʂɛ.t͡ɕɛʂ/ used to state that something is obvious, but;… #390
- Portuguese vida/ˈvi.dɐ/ state of being alive #130
- Romanian politia/poˈlitja/ polity, state, republic #1,667
- Russian состояние[səstɐˈjænʲɪje] state, status, condition #1,698
- Serbian kažem/ˈkaʒɛm/ to say, to state #162
- Slovak pokoj/pɔkɔj/ the state without movement or activity, rest #499
- Spanish triste/ˈtɾiste/ As a temporary state #968
- Swedish sönder/ˈsœndɛr/ into a broken or destroyed state #993
- Tagalog pakiramdam/pakiɾamˈdam/ condition; state #679
- Tamil நிலை/nɪlɐɪ̯/ condition, state, situation, status #540
- Telugu పరిస్థితి/ˈparisˌtʰiti/ state, situation, condition #319
- Turkish aç[ɑt͡ʃ] hungrily, in a hungry state #407
- Ukrainian штат[ʃtat] #2,148
- Urdu حال/ɦɑːl/ state, condition #403
- Vietnamese lại[laːj˧˨ʔ] once more, indicates an action or state is… #36
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).
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