How to say “ten” 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.
- diez/ˈdjeθ/ Spanish
- десять[ˈdʲesʲɪtʲ] Russian
- عشرة/ʕa.ʃa.ra/ Arabic
- 열[jʌ̹ɭ] Korean
- दस/d̪əs/ Hindi
- δέκα/ˈðe.ka/ Greek
“ten” in Spanish: diez · French: dix · German: zehn · Italian: dieci · Portuguese: dez · Korean: 열 · Russian: десять · Arabic: عشرة
It is commonest in Catalan, where deu is the 270th most used word.
Ten in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans tien/tin/ #757
- Albanian dhjetë/ðjetə/ #612
- Arabic عشرة/ʕa.ʃa.ra/ #408
- Armenian տասը/ˈtɑsə/ #923
- Basque hamar/hamar/ #368
- Bengali দশ/d̪ɔʃ/ #517
- Bosnian deset/dêset/ #609
- Bulgarian десет[ˈdɛsɛt] #741
- Catalan deu[ˈdɛw] #270
- Chinese 十年/ʂɻ̩³⁵ ni̯ɛn³⁵/ ten years; decade #669
- Croatian deset/dêset/ #611
- Czech deset[ˈdɛsɛt] #669
- Danish ti/tiːˀ/ #405
- Dutch tien/tin/ #478
- English dick/dɪk/ Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting #1,384
- Esperanto dek/dek/ #338
- Estonian kümme/ˈkymˑe/ #703
- Finnish kymmenen/ˈkymːenen/ #817
- French dix/dis/ #736
- Galician dez/ˈdɛθ/ #431
- Georgian ათი[ätʰi] #1,045
- German zehn/t͡seːn/ #635
- Greek δέκα/ˈðe.ka/ #668
- Hebrew עשרה/ʕa.ɬaː.ˈraː/ #779
- Hindi दस/d̪əs/ #607
- Hungarian tíz[ˈtiːz] #697
- Icelandic tíu[ˈtʰiːjʏ] #279
- Indonesian sepuluh/səˈpuluh/ #910
- Italian dieci/ˈdjɛ.t͡ʃi/ #702
- Korean 열[jʌ̹ɭ] #452
- Latvian desmit[ˈdɛsmit] #620
- Lithuanian dešimt[²ˈdʲæːʃʲɪmt] #548
- Macedonian десет[ˈdɛsɛt] #634
- Malay sepuluh/səˈpuluh/ #837
- Malayalam പത്ത്/pɐt̪t̪ɨ/ #322
- Norwegian ti/ˈtiː/ #377
- Persian ده[d̪æʱ] #299
- Polish kilka/ˈkil.ka/ more than two but less than ten; several; few #217
- Portuguese dez/ˈdɛ(j)s/ #643
- Romanian zece/ˈze.t͡ʃe/ #691
- Russian десять[ˈdʲesʲɪtʲ] #925
- Serbian deset/dêset/ #602
- Slovak desať/ɟesac/ #500
- Slovenian deset/dɛséːt/ #308
- Spanish diez/ˈdjeθ/ #589
- Swedish tio/ˈtiːˌʊ/ #425
- Tagalog sampu/samˈpuʔ/ #974
- Tamil பத்து/pɐt̪ːɯ/ #421
- Turkish on/on/ #415
- Ukrainian десять[ˈdɛsʲɐtʲ] #599
- Urdu دس/d̪əs/ #413
- Vietnamese mười[mɨəj˨˩] #1,241
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.