How to say “task” in 38 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.
- tarea/taˈɾea/ Spanish
- משימה/msiˈma/ Hebrew
- காரியம்/kɑːɾɪjɐm/ Tamil
- завдання[zɐu̯ˈdanʲːɐ] Ukrainian
- کام/kɑːm/ Urdu
“task” in Spanish: tarea · Italian: faccenda
It is commonest in Urdu, where کام is the 65th most used word.
Task in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian detyrë/dɛtyɾə/ duty, task, assignment #901
- Arabic مهمة/mahamma/ job, task, function, duty #490
- Basque lan/lan/ work, task #87
- Bengali কাম/kam/ work, task, labour #547
- Bosnian zadatak/zadǎːtak/ task, assignment #1,036
- Bulgarian задача[zɐˈdat͡ʃɐ] task, problem, job #1,520
- Chinese 使命/ʂɻ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ miŋ⁵¹/ mission; set task; assignment #1,237
- Croatian zadatak/zadǎːtak/ task, assignment #1,065
- Czech úkol[ˈuːkol] #1,237
- Danish job[ˈd̥jʌb̥] a task #389
- Dutch missie/ˈmɪ.si/ mission, task #1,016
- English job/dʒɑb/ A task #264
- Esperanto tasko/ˈtasko/ task, assigned work #1,024
- Estonian taskus/ˈtɑskus/ inessive singular of task #1,715
- Finnish toimia/ˈtoi̯miɑˣ/ chore, task, job, duty #1,165
- Galician tarefa/taˈɾɛfa/ chore, task #1,469
- Hebrew משימה/msiˈma/ a task, a mission #1,258
- Hindi काम/kɑːm/ work, task, labour #81
- Icelandic verkefni[ˈvɛr̥k.ɛpnɪ] task, assignment, project #613
- Indonesian tugas/ˈtuɡas/ #588
- Italian faccenda/fatˈt͡ʃɛn.da/ task, labour/labor #1,708
- Korean 임무[ˈi(ː)mmu] duty; task; mission #926
- Latvian uzdevums[uzdɛvums] task, duty #1,010
- Lithuanian užduotis/ʊʒ.d̪uəˈt̪ʲɪs̪/ a task, assignment, work #857
- Macedonian задача[ˈzadat͡ʃa] task, assignment #890
- Malay cubaan/t͡ʃubäˈän/ an attempt to do a certain task #1,890
- Norwegian oppdrag/ˈɔpˌdrɑːɡ/ an assignment, mission, task #1,273
- Persian مهم[mo.ɦem(ː)] important task, important affair #185
- Russian задание[zɐˈdanʲɪje] assignment, task #2,023
- Serbian zadatak/zadǎːtak/ task, assignment #1,010
- Slovak úloha/uːlɔɦa/ #1,167
- Spanish tarea/taˈɾea/ #2,152
- Swedish göra/²ɡœːra/ work, task #61
- Tagalog gawain/ˌɡaˈwaʔin/ task; work; duty #886
- Tamil காரியம்/kɑːɾɪjɐm/ #1,103
- Turkish iş/iʃ/ work, task, deed #139
- Ukrainian завдання[zɐu̯ˈdanʲːɐ] task, job, assignment #1,059
- Urdu کام/kɑːm/ task, action, work #65
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) and Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0).
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