How to say “station” 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.
- estación/estaˈθjon/ Spanish
- محطة/ma.ħatˤ.tˤa/ Arabic
- 역[jʌ̹k̚] Korean
- स्टेशन/sʈeː.ʃən/ Hindi
- სადგური[sädɡuɾi] Georgian
- կայարան/kɑjɑˈɾɑn/ Armenian
“station” in Spanish: estación · French: station · Korean: 역 · Arabic: محطة · Hindi: स्टेशन
It is commonest in Slovenian, where postaja is the 443rd most used word.
Station in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans stasie/ˈstɑːsi/ #806
- Arabic محطة/ma.ħatˤ.tˤa/ #746
- Armenian կայարան/kɑjɑˈɾɑn/ #637
- Basque geltoki/ɡeltoki/ #1,474
- Bosnian stanice/ˈstanɪtsɛ/ #1,561
- Catalan comissaria[ku.mi.səˈɾi.ə] police station #2,408
- Chinese 警局/t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy³⁵/ police department; police station #744
- Croatian kombi/ˈkombɪ/ station wagon #1,760
- Czech stanice[ˈstaɲɪt͡sɛ] #1,809
- Esperanto stacidomo/stat͡siˈdomo/ train station, station house #1,761
- Estonian jaama/ˈjɑːmɑ/ railway station #1,850
- French station/sta.sjɔ̃/ #1,932
- Galician estación/estaˈθjon/ #1,065
- Georgian სადგური[sädɡuɾi] #1,140
- German station/ʃtaˈt͡si̯oːn/ stop, stopover, station #2,375
- Hindi स्टेशन/sʈeː.ʃən/ #901
- Korean 역[jʌ̹k̚] #1,114
- Lithuanian stotis/stoːˈtɪs/ #1,330
- Macedonian станица[ˈstanit͡sa] station, terminal #780
- Malay balai/ˈbalaj/ hall, station, large building for public… #1,340
- Malayalam സ്റ്റേഷൻ/steːʂɐn/ #934
- Norwegian stasjonen/stɑˈʃuːnn̩/ a station #1,576
- Persian ایستگاه[ʔiːst̪ʰ.ɡɒ́ːʰ] #1,754
- Polish stacji/ˈsta.t͡sji/ #2,005
- Serbian stanice/ˈstanɪtsɛ/ #1,624
- Slovenian postaja/pɔstáːja/ #443
- Spanish estación/estaˈθjon/ #1,153
- Tagalog estasyon/ʔestasˈjon/ railway station; train station #1,391
- Urdu اسٹیشن/ɪs.ʈeː.ʃən/ station, stop #875
- Vietnamese đài[ʔɗaːj˨˩] a network or station #925
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 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).
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