How to say “study” in 39 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.
- estudio/esˈtudjo/ Spanish
- заниматься[zənʲɪˈmat͡sːə] Russian
- սովորել/sovoˈɾel/ Armenian
- പഠനം/pɐʈʰɐnɐm/ Malayalam
- مطالعہ/mʊ.t̪ɑː.lə.(ʔ)ɑ(ː)/ Urdu
“study” in Spanish: estudio · Italian: studio · Portuguese: estudar · Russian: заниматься
It is commonest in Vietnamese, where học is the 219th most used word.
Study in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans studeer/styˈdiər/ to study #730
- Arabic أقرأ/ʔaq.ra.ʔa/ to cause one to read or study, to cause one… #1,384
- Armenian սովորել/sovoˈɾel/ to study #533
- Basque ikasketa/ikas̺keta/ study, studying, learning #1,913
- Bengali শিক্ষা/ʃikʰːa/ learning; study #629
- Bosnian uči/ˈutʃɪ/ to learn, study #2,164
- Bulgarian уча[ˈut͡ʃɐ] to learn, to study #1,549
- Catalan estudi[əsˈtu.ði] #2,164
- Chinese 研究/jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/ to research; to study #244
- Croatian učiti/ǔt͡ʃiti/ to learn, study #2,003
- Dutch geleerd/ɣəˈleːrt/ to learn, to study #895
- Esperanto studis/ˈstudis/ to study #1,264
- Estonian õppima/ˈɤpːimɑ/ to learn, study #1,091
- French examen/ɛɡ.za.mɛ̃/ examination, inspection, study, analysis #2,034
- Galician estudar/estuˈdaɾ/ to study #1,822
- Georgian ისწავლო[ist͡sʼävɫo̞] to learn, study #1,156
- Hebrew למד/laːˈmad/ to learn, to study #1,845
- Hindi क्षेत्र/kʂeːt̪.ɾᵊ/ field, area of study #558
- Hungarian tanultam[ˈtɒnultɒm] to study, to learn #2,179
- Icelandic læra[ˈlaiːra] to learn, to study #495
- Indonesian belajar/bəˈlad͡ʒar/ to study; to learn #409
- Italian studio/ˈstu.djo/ to study #950
- Korean 공부[ko̞ŋbu] learning; study #1,410
- Latvian mācīties[ˈmâːt͡sîːtiɛ̂s] to learn, to study #2,119
- Macedonian учи[ˈut͡ʃi] to learn, study #1,609
- Malay belajar/bəˈlad͡ʒa(r)/ to study; to learn #371
- Malayalam പഠനം/pɐʈʰɐnɐm/ #901
- Persian مطالعه[mo.t̪ʰɒː.le.ʔé] research, study #1,321
- Portuguese estudar/is.tuˈda(ʁ)/ to study #1,771
- Russian заниматься[zənʲɪˈmat͡sːə] to study, to learn #1,083
- Serbian uči/ˈutʃɪ/ to learn, study #1,944
- Slovenian študirati/ʃtudíːrati/ to study #2,057
- Spanish estudio/esˈtudjo/ to study #1,393
- Tagalog mag-aral/maɡˈʔaɾal/ to study #692
- Tamil ஆய்வு/ɑːjʋɯ/ investigation, research, study #560
- Turkish öğrenmek/øː.ɾenˈmec/ to learn, study, master #753
- Ukrainian дослідження[dosʲˈlʲid͡ʒenʲːɐ] investigation, research, study, inquiry #1,970
- Urdu مطالعہ/mʊ.t̪ɑː.lə.(ʔ)ɑ(ː)/ study, reading, perusal #876
- Vietnamese học[hawk͡p̚˧˨ʔ] to study; to learn #219
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.