How to say “summer” in 37 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.
- verano/beˈɾano/ Spanish
- 夏天/ɕi̯ä⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/ Chinese
- קיץ/ˈkajits/ Hebrew
- ամառային/ɑmɑrɑˈjin/ Armenian
- വേനൽ/ʋeːnɐl/ Malayalam
- వేసవి/ˈʋeːsaʋi/ Telugu
“summer” in Spanish: verano · German: sommer · Italian: estate · Chinese: 夏天 · Turkish: yaz
It is commonest in Czech, where let is the 230th most used word.
Summer in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans somer/ˈsʊəmər/ #690
- Armenian ամառային/ɑmɑrɑˈjin/ #774
- Basque uda/uda/ #797
- Bosnian leti/lêti/ summers, in summer, during the summer #1,653
- Bulgarian лято[ˈlʲa̟to] #1,939
- Catalan estiu[əsˈtiw] #1,376
- Chinese 夏天/ɕi̯ä⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/ #668
- Croatian leti/lêti/ summers, in summer, during the summer #1,906
- Czech let[ˈlɛt] #230
- Danish sommer/ˈsɔmɐ/ #2,074
- Dutch zomer/ˈzoːmər/ #1,550
- Esperanto somero/soˈmero/ #1,549
- Estonian suvel/ˈsuvel/ #1,576
- German sommer/ˈzɔmɐ/ #1,698
- Greek καλοκαίρι/ka.loˈce.ɾi/ summertime, summer #1,533
- Hebrew קיץ/ˈkajits/ #1,923
- Icelandic sumar[ˈsʏːmar] #836
- Italian estate/esˈta.te/ #1,670
- Korean 하지[ha̠d͡ʑi] summer solstice #86
- Latvian vasaras/ˈʋasaras/ #1,901
- Lithuanian vasarą[²ˈʋɑːsɐrɑː] #1,090
- Macedonian лето[ˈlɛtɔ] summer, summertime #1,519
- Malayalam വേനൽ/ʋeːnɐl/ #1,721
- Norwegian sommeren/ˈsɔməɳ/ #2,231
- Persian تابستون/tɒːbestuːn/ #1,474
- Romanian vara/ˈva.ra/ in the summer #1,698
- Serbian leta/ˈlɛtɐ/ summer, summertime #1,493
- Slovak leto/ʎetɔ/ #935
- Slovenian poletje/pɔléːtjɛ/ #754
- Spanish verano/beˈɾano/ #1,296
- Swedish sommaren/²sɔˌmarɛn/ #2,269
- Tagalog tag-araw/taɡʔaˈɾaw/ summer; hot, dry season; sunny days #1,627
- Tamil வேனில்/ʋeːnɪl/ summer season #1,730
- Telugu వేసవి/ˈʋeːsaʋi/ the summer, hot season #312
- Turkish yaz/jaz/ #884
- Urdu گرما/ɡəɾ.mɑː/ summer, the hot season #1,748
- Vietnamese hạ[haː˧˨ʔ] #438
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 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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