How to say “system” in 43 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.
- sistema/sisˈtema/ Spanish
- система[sʲɪˈsʲtʲemə] Russian
- نظام/ni.ðˤaːm/ Arabic
- 制度/ʈ͡ʂɻ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ tu⁵¹/ Chinese
- 시스템[ɕ͈isʰɯtʰe̞m] Korean
- प्रणाली/pɾə.ɳɑː.liː/ Hindi
“system” in Spanish: sistema · French: système · Portuguese: sistema · Chinese: 制度 · Korean: 시스템 · Russian: система · Arabic: نظام · Hindi: प्रणाली
It is commonest in Urdu, where نظام is the 183rd most used word.
System in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian sistem/sɪsˈtɛm/ #1,336
- Arabic نظام/ni.ðˤaːm/ #505
- Armenian է/je/ 7 in the system of Armenian numerals #1
- Bengali ব্যবস্থা/bæbost̪ʰa/ #392
- Bosnian sistem/sǐsteːm/ #849
- Bulgarian система[siˈstɛmɐ] #795
- Catalan sistema[sisˈte.mə] #707
- Chinese 制度/ʈ͡ʂɻ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ tu⁵¹/ system; institution #1,787
- Croatian sustav/sǔːstaʋ/ #982
- Czech systém[ˈsɪstɛːm] #1,010
- Danish systemet/syˈsdeːˀməð/ #1,584
- Dutch systeem/siˈsteːm/ #1,112
- English henry/ˈhɛn.ɹi/ In the International System of Units, the… #1,089
- Esperanto sistemo/sisˈtemo/ #1,075
- Estonian süsteem/ˈsysteːm/ #1,357
- French système/sis.tɛm/ #802
- Galician sistema/sisˈtɛma/ #563
- Greek σύστημα/ˈsis.ti.ma/ #742
- Hindi प्रणाली/pɾə.ɳɑː.liː/ a system #896
- Hungarian rendszer[ˈrɛnt͡sɛr] #1,669
- Icelandic kerfi[ˈcʰɛrvɪ] system, organization #1,280
- Korean 시스템[ɕ͈isʰɯtʰe̞m] #949
- Latvian sistēma/ˈsisteːma/ #1,109
- Lithuanian sistema/sʲɪsʲtʲɛˈmɐ/ #630
- Macedonian систем[ˈsistɛm] #624
- Malay sistem/ˈsistəm/ #517
- Malayalam സിസ്റ്റം/sisrrɐm/ #796
- Norwegian systemet/sʏˈsteːmə/ a system #1,352
- Persian سیستم[siːs.t̪ʰem] #1,118
- Portuguese sistema/sisˈtẽ.mɐ/ #659
- Romanian sistem/sisˈtem/ #1,260
- Russian система[sʲɪˈsʲtʲemə] #1,731
- Serbian sistem/sǐsteːm/ #848
- Slovak veda/veda/ a system of knowledge of the laws of… #1,407
- Slovenian sistem/sistéːm/ #374
- Spanish sistema/sisˈtema/ #744
- Swedish systemet/sysˈteːmɛt/ a system, a way or method of organizing items… #1,738
- Tagalog paraan/paɾaˈʔan/ method; system; means; way #247
- Tamil நெறி/nɛriː/ procedure, system #1,818
- Turkish sistemi[sisteˈmi] #1,230
- Ukrainian система[seˈstɛmɐ] #1,282
- Urdu نظام/nɪ.zɑːm/ system, order #183
- Vietnamese hệ[he˧˨ʔ] #458
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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