How to say “student” in 32 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.
- estudiante/estuˈdjante/ Spanish
- 학생[ha̠ks͈ɛŋ] Korean
- छात्र/t͡ʃʰɑːt̪.ɾᵊ/ Hindi
- תלמיד/talˈmid/ Hebrew
- ছাত্র/t͡ʃʰat̪ɾo/ Bengali
- ശിഷ്യൻ/ʃiʂjɐn/ Malayalam
“student” in Spanish: estudiante · Italian: studenti · Korean: 학생 · Hindi: छात्र · Turkish: öğrenci
It is commonest in Basque, where ikasle is the 620th most used word.
Student in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans studente/styˈdɛntə/ #1,105
- Basque ikasle/ikas̺le/ student, pupil #620
- Bengali ছাত্র/t͡ʃʰat̪ɾo/ #1,107
- Bosnian student/stǔdent/ #2,426
- Bulgarian ученик[ot͡ʃɛˈnik] male pupil, male student, schoolboy #2,334
- Chinese 女生/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/ schoolgirl; female student #626
- Dutch studenten/styˈdɛntən/ a student at an institute for academic… #2,278
- Esperanto studento/stuˈdento/ #1,777
- Estonian õpilane/ˈɤpilɑne/ pupil, student #1,585
- Galician estudantes/estuˈdantes/ #1,555
- German schüler/ˈʃyːlɐ/ pupil, student, schoolboy #2,115
- Greek μαθητές/ˌmaθiˈtes/ pupil; student; schoolboy #2,260
- Hebrew תלמיד/talˈmid/ A student, pupil, disciple #2,115
- Hindi छात्र/t͡ʃʰɑːt̪.ɾᵊ/ student, pupil, disciple #1,109
- Icelandic nemendur/ˈnɛːmɛntʏr/ student, pupil #1,617
- Indonesian siswa/ˈsiswa/ #1,451
- Italian studenti/stʊˈdɛntɪ/ #2,111
- Korean 학생[ha̠ks͈ɛŋ] student, scholar, school pupil #1,294
- Lithuanian studentas[stʊ²ˈdʲɛnˑtɐs] college / university student #1,621
- Macedonian ученици[uˈt͡ʃɛnit͡si] student, pupil #2,134
- Malay pelajar/pəl.a.d͡ʒa(r)/ #798
- Malayalam ശിഷ്യൻ/ʃiʂjɐn/ #2,386
- Persian شاگرد[ʃɒː.ɡʲéɹd̪̪̥] pupil, student, scholar #2,233
- Romanian student/stuˈdent/ college student #2,497
- Slovak študent/ʃtudent/ #1,436
- Slovenian študent/ʃtudɛ́nt/ #1,142
- Spanish estudiante/estuˈdjante/ #2,160
- Tagalog estudyante/ʔestudˈjante/ pupil; student #431
- Tamil மாணவன்/mɑːɳɐʋɐn/ male student, pupil #1,933
- Telugu విద్యార్థి/ʋid̪jaːɾt̪ʰi/ a pupil, student #1,084
- Turkish öğrenci/øːɾænˈdʒi/ #1,473
- Urdu شاگرد/ʃɑː.ɡɪɾd̪/ pupil, apprentice; student #2,248
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 Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
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