How to say “taste” 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.
- gusto/ˈɡusto/ Spanish
- вкус[fkus] Russian
- 맛[ma̠t̚] Korean
- स्वाद/sʋɑːd̪/ Hindi
- স্বাদ/ʃad̪/ Bengali
- രുചി/ɾud͡ʒi/ Malayalam
“taste” in Spanish: gusto · French: goût · German: schmeckt · Korean: 맛 · Russian: вкус · Hindi: स्वाद
It is commonest in Malay, where rasa is the 68th most used word.
Taste in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans lekkerder/ˈlækərdər/ having a nice taste, tasty, good, delicious #1,621
- Albanian shije/ʃijɛ/ taste, flavour #1,118
- Bengali স্বাদ/ʃad̪/ taste, flavour, savour, relish #774
- Bosnian ukus/ǔkus/ taste, as in a person’s implicit set of… #1,547
- Bulgarian вкус[fkus] taste, flavour, savour, smack #1,349
- Catalan gust[ˈɡust] #785
- Chinese 味道/weɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/ flavor; taste #362
- Croatian okus/ǒkus/ taste; flavor #2,074
- Czech chuť[ˈxuc] #1,363
- Danish smag/ˈsmaːˀ/ #1,671
- Dutch lekker/ˈlɛ.kər/ having a nice taste, tasty, delectable #444
- English delicious/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty #1,982
- Esperanto dolĉa/ˈdolt͡ʃa/ sweet, having a taste similar to sugar and… #1,628
- Estonian maitse/ˈmɑi̯tse/ #1,173
- French goût/ɡu/ taste, flavour #1,512
- Galician gusto/ˈɡusto/ #917
- German schmeckt/ˈʃmɛkt/ to taste #1,741
- Greek γλυκιά/ɣliˈca/ sweet in taste #530
- Hebrew מתוק/maˈtok/ Sweet: having a pleasant taste, akin to that… #652
- Hindi स्वाद/sʋɑːd̪/ #1,587
- Icelandic smakka[ˈsmahka] to taste #2,081
- Indonesian rasa/ˈrasa/ #247
- Korean 맛[ma̠t̚] taste, flavor #1,060
- Latvian garšo/ˈɡarʃuo/ to taste good, to please #980
- Macedonian вкус[fkus] #1,070
- Malay rasa/ˈrasə/ taste, flavour #68
- Malayalam രുചി/ɾud͡ʒi/ #834
- Norwegian smaker/ˈsmɑːkər/ #1,745
- Persian مزه[mæ.ze] taste, flavour, smack, relish #922
- Romanian gust/ˈɡust/ #1,525
- Russian вкус[fkus] #1,763
- Serbian ukus/ǔkus/ taste, as in a person’s implicit set of… #1,432
- Slovak chuť/xuc/ #707
- Slovenian okus/ɔkúːs/ taste, flavour #581
- Spanish gusto/ˈɡusto/ #745
- Swedish smaka/ˈsmɑːka/ to taste #1,845
- Tagalog mamahalin/ˌmamaˈhalin/ having characteristics of something of… #1,019
- Tamil இனிப்பு/ɪnɪpːɯ/ the taste of sweetness #835
- Telugu రుచి/ˈruci/ taste, flavour, relish #468
- Turkish tatlı/tatˈɫɯ/ sweet; having a pleasant taste, akin to that… #537
- Ukrainian смак[smak] #1,947
- Urdu ذائقہ/zɑː.ɪ.qɑ(ː)/ #1,599
- Vietnamese vị[vi˧˨ʔ] #247
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.