How to say “taxi” in 32 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.
- taxi/ˈtaɡsi/ Spanish
- такси[tɐkˈsʲi] Russian
- 택시[tʰɛkɕ͈i] Korean
- टैक्सी/ʈɛːk.siː/ Hindi
- ταξί/takˈsi/ Greek
- מונית/moˈnit/ Hebrew
“taxi” in Spanish: taxi · German: taxi · Italian: taxi · Portuguese: táxi · Korean: 택시 · Russian: такси · Hindi: टैक्सी · Turkish: taksi
It is commonest in Lithuanian, where taksi is the 595th most used word.
Taxi in other languages, A to Z
- Basque taxi/ˈtaʃi/ #770
- Bengali ট্যাক্সি/ʈæk.ʃi/ #982
- Bosnian taksi/tǎksi/ #1,319
- Bulgarian такси[tɐkˈsi] taxi; cab #1,327
- Croatian taksi/tǎksi/ #1,443
- Czech taxi/ˈtaksi/ #2,217
- Danish taxa/taksa/ cab, taxi #2,424
- Dutch taxi/ˈtɑk.si/ a taxi #1,452
- Estonian takso/ˈtɑkso/ #1,256
- French taxi/tak.si/ taxi driver #1,421
- German taxi/ˈtaksi/ taxi, cab #1,525
- Greek ταξί/takˈsi/ #1,232
- Hebrew מונית/moˈnit/ taxi, cab, taxicab #1,340
- Hindi टैक्सी/ʈɛːk.siː/ #1,620
- Icelandic leigubíll[ˈleiːɣʏˌpitl̥] a taxi, a taxicab, a cab #1,987
- Indonesian taksi/ˈtaksi/ #1,409
- Italian taxi/ˈtak.si/ #1,656
- Korean 택시[tʰɛkɕ͈i] #915
- Lithuanian taksi[tɐkˈsʲɪ] taxi, cab #595
- Macedonian такси[ˈtaksi] taxi, cab #1,040
- Malay teksi/ˈteksi/ #1,244
- Portuguese táxi/ˈtak.si/ #1,750
- Romanian taxi/tak.ˈsi/ #1,401
- Russian такси[tɐkˈsʲi] taxi; cab #1,497
- Serbian taksi/tǎksi/ #1,260
- Slovenian taksi/táːksi/ #632
- Spanish taxi/ˈtaɡsi/ #1,460
- Swedish taxi/ˈtakːsɪ/ #1,624
- Telugu టాక్సీ/ʈaːksiː/ #1,459
- Turkish taksi/ˈtak.si/ #1,375
- Ukrainian таксі[tɐkˈsʲi] taxi; cab #1,806
- Urdu ٹیکسی/ʈɛːk.siː/ #926
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.