How to say “stay” 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.
- 停留/tʰiŋ³⁵ li̯oʊ̯³⁵/ Chinese
- 있다[it̚t͈a̠] Korean
- रहे/ɾə.ɦeː/ Hindi
- μείνε/ˈmine/ Greek
- נשאר/niˈʃaʁ/ Hebrew
- დარჩება[d̥äɾt͡ʃʰe̞bä] Georgian
“stay” in French: reste · Italian: sta · Chinese: 停留 · Korean: 있다 · Hindi: रहे · Greek: μείνε
It is commonest in Hindi, where रहे is the 26th most used word.
Stay in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian është/ˈəʃtə/ to live, stay alive #6
- Arabic تبقى/tabaqqaː/ to remain, to continue, to stay #350
- Armenian մնաք/məˈnɑkʰ/ to stay, to remain #418
- Bosnian ostati/ǒstati/ to stay, remain #445
- Bulgarian остана[oˈstanɐ] to stay, to remain #450
- Chinese 停留/tʰiŋ³⁵ li̯oʊ̯³⁵/ to stay; to remain; to stop #1,583
- Croatian ostati/ǒstati/ to stay, remain #371
- Czech zůstat[ˈzuːstat] to stay, to remain #521
- Dutch blijven/ˈblɛi̯vən/ to stay, to remain #234
- English remains/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/ To stay after others or other parts have been… #2,255
- Esperanto restu/ˈrestu/ to remain, to stay #255
- Estonian jää/ˈjæː/ to stay, to remain #349
- Finnish pysy/ˈpysy/ to stay, remain #440
- French reste/ʁɛst/ to stay #209
- Galician queda/ˈkeda/ to stay, remain #368
- Georgian დარჩება[d̥äɾt͡ʃʰe̞bä] to stay #704
- Greek μείνε/ˈmine/ to stay, reside, live #533
- Hebrew נשאר/niˈʃaʁ/ to stay, to remain #561
- Hindi रहे/ɾə.ɦeː/ to stay, remain #26
- Hungarian maradj[ˈmɒrɒɟː] to stay, remain #449
- Icelandic gista[ˈcɪsta] to stay the night, sleep over #1,478
- Indonesian menginap/məˈŋinap/ to stay and sleep #2,196
- Italian sta/ˈsta/ to stay, remain #76
- Korean 있다[it̚t͈a̠] to stay, remain in a location #164
- Lithuanian likti/lʲɪk.tʲɪ/ stay, remain, be left #464
- Macedonian остане[ˈɔstanɛ] to stay, remain #485
- Malay pondok[pon.doʔ] A building for short-term stay; bungalow;… #2,122
- Malayalam താമസം/t̪aːmɐsɐm/ living, stay; accommodation #436
- Norwegian blir/ˈbliːr/ to stay, remain #82
- Persian موندن[muːnˈdæn] to stay #957
- Polish zostać/ˈzɔ.stat͡ɕ/ to stay, to remain #338
- Romanian stai/staj/ to stay #131
- Russian остаться[ɐˈstat͡sːə] to remain, to stay #643
- Serbian ostati/ǒstati/ to stay, remain #527
- Slovak ostať/ɔstac/ to stay, to remain #671
- Slovenian ostal/ɔsˈtaːw/ to stay, remain #298
- Swedish stanna/ˈstana/ to stay; to remain at a place #227
- Tagalog manatili/manaˈtili/ to stay or remain unchanged or constant; to… #299
- Telugu ఆగారు/ˈaːɡaːru/ to stop, stay, abstain, refrain #335
- Ukrainian залишитися[zɐɫeˈʃɪtesʲɐ] to remain, to stay; to be left #1,103
- Urdu رہائش/ɾə.ɦɑː.ɪʃ/ residence, stay #1,532
- Vietnamese tránh[t͡ɕajŋ̟˧˦] to stay out of the way #489
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 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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