How to say “street” in 48 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.
- calle/ˈkaʝe/ Spanish
- شارع/ʃaː.riʕ/ Arabic
- רחוב/rəˈħoːv/ Hebrew
- ქუჩის[kʰut͡ʃʰis] Georgian
- փողոց/pʰoˈʁot͡sʰ/ Armenian
- வீதி/ʋiːd̪iː/ Tamil
“street” in Spanish: calle · French: rue · German: straße · Portuguese: rua · Arabic: شارع · Turkish: sokak
It is commonest in Galician, where rúa is the 338th most used word.
Street in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans pad[pɑt] path; way; street #264
- Albanian rrugë/ˈruɡə/ road, street #315
- Arabic شارع/ʃaː.riʕ/ #690
- Armenian փողոց/pʰoˈʁot͡sʰ/ #697
- Basque kalean/kaˈleˌan/ #463
- Bengali রাস্তা/rast̪a/ road, street #281
- Bosnian ulice/ˈulit͡sɛ/ #1,170
- Bulgarian улица[ˈulit͡sɐ] #1,201
- Catalan carrer[kəˈre] #671
- Chinese 街上/t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵ ʂɑŋ²/ on the street #699
- Croatian ulice/ˈulit͡sɛ/ #1,209
- Czech ulici[ˈulɪt͡sɪ] #947
- Danish gaden/ˈɡaːðən/ #1,004
- Dutch straat/straːt/ street, paved way #837
- Esperanto strato/ˈstrato/ #747
- Estonian tänav/ˈtænɑv/ #1,839
- Finnish kadulla/ˈkadulla/ #2,273
- French rue/ʁy/ street, road #725
- Galician rúa/ˈrua/ #338
- Georgian ქუჩის[kʰut͡ʃʰis] #1,207
- German straße/ˈʃtʁaːsə/ street; road #719
- Greek δρόμο/ˈðromo/ roadway, road, street, way #361
- Hebrew רחוב/rəˈħoːv/ #1,017
- Hindi रास्ता/ɾɑːs.t̪ɑː/ road, path, street #385
- Hungarian utcán[ˈut͡sːaːn] #1,549
- Icelandic götunni/ˈkœːtʏnɪ/ street, road #902
- Indonesian jalan/ˈd͡ʒalan/ road; way; street #178
- Italian strada/ˈstra.da/ road, way, street #407
- Korean 길[kiɭ] a road, a path, a street, a track; passage,… #449
- Latvian ielas/ˈielas/ street, road #759
- Lithuanian gatvės[²ˈɡɑːtʲʋʲeːs] #780
- Macedonian улица[ˈulit͡sa] #539
- Malay jalan/ˈd͡ʒalan/ path; road; street; track; way #182
- Malayalam തെരുവ്/t̪eɾuʋɨ/ #905
- Norwegian vei/ˈvæ͡ɪ/ road, street, path #217
- Polish ulicy/uˈli.t͡sɘ/ #1,024
- Portuguese rua/ˈʁu.ɐ/ street; road #635
- Romanian strada/ˈstrada/ #1,096
- Serbian ulice/ˈulit͡sɛ/ #1,208
- Slovak ulici/ˈu.ɫi.t͡si/ #659
- Slovenian ulici/ˈulit͡si/ #425
- Spanish calle/ˈkaʝe/ #602
- Swedish gatan/ˈɡɑːtan/ a street #1,024
- Tagalog kalsada/kalˈsada/ road; street #1,137
- Tamil வீதி/ʋiːd̪iː/ street, especially a broad one #383
- Turkish sokak[soˈkɑk] street, alley #1,414
- Urdu گلی/ɡə.liː/ street, lane #1,016
- Vietnamese đường[ʔɗɨəŋ˨˩] road; street; path; route; trace #188
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).
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