How to say “take” in 52 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.
- возьми[vɐzʲˈmʲi] Russian
- लिए/lɪ.eː/ Hindi
- აიღო[äiʁo̞] Georgian
- վերցնել/veɾt͡sʰˈnel/ Armenian
- নেন/nen/ Bengali
- لئے/lɪ.jeː/ Urdu
“take” in French: prendre · German: nehmen · Russian: возьми · Hindi: लिए · Turkish: al
It is commonest in Hindi, where लिए is the 9th most used word.
Take in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vat/fat/ to take #231
- Albanian marrë/marə/ to take, grab #120
- Arabic حدث/ħadaθa/ to happen, to take place #88
- Armenian վերցնել/veɾt͡sʰˈnel/ to take #417
- Basque hartu/artu/ to take, receive, accept #56
- Bengali নেন/nen/ to take #1,076
- Bosnian uzeti/ǔzeːti/ to take #527
- Bulgarian взема[ˈvzɛmɐ] to take #280
- Catalan crec[ˈkɾɛk] to take as true #112
- Chinese 注意/ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/ to pay attention to; to take note of; to… #123
- Croatian uzeti/ǔzeːti/ to take #420
- Czech podívej[ˈpoɟiːvɛj] to look, take a look, check out #239
- Danish tager/taːˀr/ to take, get, pick up #116
- Dutch neem/neːm/ to take, to take hold of, to grasp or grab #204
- English happened/ˈhæpənd/ To occur or take place #219
- Esperanto prenu/ˈprenu/ to take, get, seize, lay hold of, pick up #204
- Estonian palun/ˈpɑlun/ please, please take, there you are #77
- Finnish katso/ˈkatso/ to look, have a look, take a look #168
- French prendre/pʁɑ̃.dʁə/ to take #193
- Galician levar/leˈbaɾ/ to take, to carry, to transport #386
- Georgian აიღო[äiʁo̞] to take #987
- German nehmen/ˈneːmən/ to take #277
- Greek συμβαίνει/siɱˈve.ni/ to happen, to occur, to take place #189
- Hebrew מוציא/mot͡si/ to take or bring out or forth #1,659
- Hindi लिए/lɪ.eː/ to take #9
- Hungarian vettem[ˈvɛtːɛm] to take, grab #487
- Icelandic taka[ˈtʰaːka] to take #127
- Indonesian melakukan/məlaˈkukan/ to do, to perform, to take action #79
- Italian successo/sutˈt͡ʃɛs.so/ to take the place, to succeed #202
- Korean 빼[p͈ɛ] to pull, to remove, to take out #1,113
- Latvian ņem/ˈɲem/ to take; to seize with one's hands for some… #379
- Lithuanian ima[ˈɪmɐ] to take #940
- Macedonian зема[ˈzɛma] to take #597
- Malay berlaku/bər.la.ku/ to happen, to occur, to take place #128
- Malayalam ഇന്നാ/in̪n̪aː/ here, take #412
- Norwegian ta/tʰɑː/ to take #61
- Persian برنده[bæ.ɹæn̪.d̪é] to bear; to carry; to take #470
- Polish weź/ˈvɛɕ/ to take #462
- Portuguese aconteceu/a.kõ.teˈsew/ to happen; to occur; to take place #213
- Romanian ia/ja/ to take #177
- Russian возьми[vɐzʲˈmʲi] to take #358
- Serbian uzeo/ˈuzɛo/ to take #581
- Slovak vziať/vzɪ̯ac/ to take #363
- Slovenian vzeti/ʋzèːti/ to take #407
- Spanish cuidado/kwiˈdado/ to look after, take care of #378
- Swedish ta/tɑː/ take; to grab and move to oneself #59
- Tagalog kunin/ˈkunin/ to take something by the hand; to fetch; to… #173
- Tamil சார்/tʃɑːɾ/ to depend upon, take shelter in #114
- Turkish al/ɑɫ/ to take #182
- Ukrainian взяти[ˈwzʲate] to take #519
- Urdu لئے/lɪ.jeː/ to take, get #22
- Vietnamese đưa[ʔɗɨə˧˧] to bring, to take, to give, to hand #149
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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