How to say “subject” in 36 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.
- विषय/ʋɪ.ʂəj/ Hindi
- θέμα/ˈθema/ Greek
- বিষয়/biʃɔe̯/ Bengali
- موضوع[mow.zuːʔ] Persian
“subject” in French: sujet · Portuguese: assunto · Hindi: विषय · Greek: θέμα
It is commonest in Persian, where موضوع is the 272nd most used word.
Subject in other languages, A to Z
- Arabic موضوع/maw.dˤuːʕ/ topic, subject, theme #774
- Bengali বিষয়/biʃɔe̯/ subject, topic #1,551
- Bosnian tema/těːma/ theme, subject #2,367
- Bulgarian за[za] on the subject of somebody/something, in… #8
- Croatian temu/ˈtɛmʊ/ theme, subject #2,406
- Czech své[ˈsvɛː] one's own; belonging to the subject, of the… #176
- Danish forbandet/fɒˈbanˀəð/ cursed, subject to a curse #1,803
- Dutch wat/ʋɑt/ what: e.g. asking for a subject complement;… #11
- English must/mʌst/ To do as a requirement; indicates that the… #155
- Esperanto sia/ˈsia/ belonging to the subject of the sentence #192
- Estonian teema/ˈteˑmɑ/ theme, subject, topic #1,231
- French sujet/sy.ʒɛ/ #561
- German thema/ˈteːma/ topic, subject, issue #1,652
- Greek θέμα/ˈθema/ subject, main topic #324
- Hebrew אנחנו/ʔaˈnaħ.nuː/ We; the subject form of the first-person… #24
- Hindi विषय/ʋɪ.ʂəj/ subject, topic #1,542
- Indonesian terus/təˈrus/ of a direction relative to the subject,… #218
- Lithuanian tema/tɛˈmɐ/ theme; subject #1,265
- Macedonian тема[ˈtɛma] theme, topic, subject #2,243
- Malay kebal/kəˈbal/ exempt; not subject to #1,261
- Malayalam ആയിരുന്നു/aːjiɾun̪n̪u/ was or were; used to connect a subject to its… #83
- Persian موضوع[mow.zuːʔ] subject, topic; theme; issue, matter #272
- Polish temat/ˈtɛ.mat/ #681
- Portuguese assunto/aˈsũ.tu/ subject, topic, theme #763
- Romanian subiect/suˈbjekt/ #1,669
- Russian пусть[pusʲtʲ] let + subject + conjugated verb #391
- Serbian temu/ˈtɛmʊ/ theme, subject #2,193
- Slovak subjekt/subjekt/ #2,348
- Spanish él/ˈel/ he, him, masculine personal third person… #52
- Tagalog ay/ʔaj/ Separates the subject and the predicate.… #12
- Tamil விஷயம்/ʋɪʃɐjɐm/ issue, matter, subject, topic, affair, deed,… #109
- Telugu విషయము/ˈʋiʂaˌjamu/ an object, subject, matter, subject-matter,… #1,581
- Turkish konu/koˈnu/ topic, subject, issue #614
- Ukrainian хай[xai̯] let + subject + conjugated verb #429
- Urdu موضوع/mɔː.zuː(ʔ)/ subject, topic, issue, matter, discussion #1,224
- Vietnamese môn[mon˧˧] subject, discipline #1,147
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 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.