How to say “teach” 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.
- सिखाया/sɪ.kʰɑː.jɑː/ Hindi
- לימד/limˈmid/ Hebrew
- ასწავლის[äst͡sʼävlis] Georgian
- শেখানো/ʃekʰano/ Bengali
- പഠിപ്പിക്കുക/pɐʈ(ʰ)ippikkjuɡɐ/ Malayalam
“teach” in German: lehrer · Italian: insegnato · Portuguese: ensinar · Hindi: सिखाया
It is commonest in Icelandic, where kenna is the 364th most used word.
Teach in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian mësuar/məsuaɾ/ to teach, instruct, train #480
- Basque irakatsi/iɾakat͡s̺i/ to teach #573
- Bengali শেখানো/ʃekʰano/ to teach #1,564
- Bosnian naučiti/naǔt͡ʃiti/ to teach, train, instruct #1,179
- Catalan ensenyar[ən.səˈɲa] to teach #860
- Croatian naučiti/naǔt͡ʃiti/ to teach, train, instruct #882
- Czech naučit[ˈnau̯t͡ʃɪt] to teach #1,257
- Danish lære[ˈlɛːɐ] to teach #506
- Esperanto instruis/insˈtruis/ to inform, instruct, teach, train #722
- Estonian õpetada/ˈɤpetɑd̥ɑ/ to teach #1,359
- Finnish opettaa/ˈopetːɑːˣ/ to teach, instruct #1,809
- Galician ensinar/ensiˈnaɾ/ to teach #2,088
- Georgian ასწავლის[äst͡sʼävlis] to teach #1,470
- German lehrer/ˈleːrər/ to teach; to be a teacher #1,666
- Hebrew לימד/limˈmid/ To teach #1,732
- Hindi सिखाया/sɪ.kʰɑː.jɑː/ to teach #1,275
- Icelandic kenna[ˈcʰɛn(ː)a] to teach, to tutor #364
- Indonesian mengajar[məŋˈad͡ʒar] to teach #1,691
- Italian insegnato/inseˈɲato/ to teach #1,707
- Lithuanian mokyti[¹ˈmoːkʲiːtʲɪ] to teach #1,918
- Macedonian научи[ˈnaut͡ʃi] to learn, teach #603
- Malay ajar/ˈad͡ʒar/ to teach #680
- Malayalam പഠിപ്പിക്കുക/pɐʈ(ʰ)ippikkjuɡɐ/ to teach #2,352
- Norwegian lærte/ˈlæːʈə/ to teach #888
- Polish nauczyć/naˈu.t͡ʂɘt͡ɕ/ to educate, to teach #1,369
- Portuguese ensinar/ẽ.siˈna(ʁ)/ to teach #2,198
- Serbian naučiti/naǔt͡ʃiti/ to teach, train, instruct #1,317
- Slovak naučiť/naut͡ʃic/ to teach #696
- Slovenian učiti/ut͡ʃìːti/ to teach #1,048
- Swedish lär/ˈlɛːr/ to teach, to instruct #523
- Tagalog magturo/maɡˈtuɾoʔ/ to teach #1,560
- Vietnamese dạy[zaj˧˨ʔ] to teach, to train #684
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.