How to say “think” in 51 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.
- pensé/penˈse/ Spanish
- думать[ˈdumətʲ] Russian
- فكر/fa.ka.ra/ Arabic
- सोचा/soː.t͡ʃɑː/ Hindi
- νομίζω/noˈmizo/ Greek
- חשב/χaˈʃav/ Hebrew
“think” in Spanish: pensé · French: pense · Italian: penso · Portuguese: pensar · Russian: думать · Arabic: فكر · Hindi: सोचा · Greek: νομίζω
It is commonest in Croatian, where mislim is the 57th most used word.
Think in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans dink/dəŋk/ to think #66
- Albanian mendoj/mɛnˈdɔj/ to think #86
- Arabic فكر/fa.ka.ra/ to think, ponder over #664
- Armenian մտածել/mətɑˈt͡sel/ to think #672
- Basque pentsatu/pent͡s̺atu/ to think #133
- Bengali ভেবে/bʱebe/ to think #401
- Bosnian mislim/ˈmislɪm/ to think #59
- Bulgarian мисля[ˈmislʲɐ] to think, to reckon #82
- Catalan pensar[pənˈsa] to think #284
- Chinese 不想/pu⁵¹ ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ to not think #32
- Croatian mislim/ˈmislɪm/ to think #57
- Czech asi[ˈasɪ] I guess/I think #124
- Danish synes[ˈsynəs] to think #222
- Dutch denk/dɛŋk/ to think #88
- English consider/kənˈsɪd.əɹ/ To think about seriously #1,345
- Esperanto pensas/ˈpensas/ to think #140
- Estonian arvan/ˈɑrvɑn/ to believe, to assume, to think #120
- Finnish luulin/ˈluːlɪn/ to believe, think, suppose, guess #244
- French pense/pɑ̃s/ to think, reflect, concentrate one's mind on… #151
- Galician penso/ˈpenso/ to think #227
- Georgian ვფიქრობ[fpʰikʰɾo̞pʰ] to think #87
- German meinst/ˈmaɪnst/ to opine, to think; to believe; to suppose #386
- Greek νομίζω/noˈmizo/ to think, consider, opine #106
- Hebrew חשב/χaˈʃav/ to think #859
- Hindi सोचा/soː.t͡ʃɑː/ to think, ponder #276
- Hungarian gondoltam[ˈɡondoltɒm] to think something, to have some opinion #200
- Icelandic hugsa[ˈhʏksa] to think, to consider, to plan, to decide #176
- Indonesian pikirkan/piˈkirkan/ to think about, consider carefully #413
- Italian penso/ˈpɛn.so/ to think #184
- Latvian domājat/ˈduomaːjat/ to think #556
- Lithuanian galvoti[ɡɐl¹ˈʋoːtʲɪ] to think about #712
- Macedonian нели[ˈnɛli] right, don't you think #108
- Malay fikirkan/fikirkan/ to think about, to contemplate #397
- Malayalam ഓർക്കുക/oːrkkuɡɐ/ to think, remember #1,033
- Norwegian tror/ˈtruːr/ to think, believe #67
- Polish myślę/ˈmɘ.ɕlɛ/ to think #142
- Portuguese pensar/pẽˈsa(ʁ)/ to think #210
- Romanian gândit[ɡɨnˈdit] to think #335
- Russian думать[ˈdumətʲ] to think #640
- Serbian mislim/ˈmislɪm/ to think #60
- Slovak asi/ˈasi/ I guess, I think #105
- Slovenian misliti/mìːsliti/ to think #565
- Spanish pensé/penˈse/ to think, ponder #271
- Swedish tror/truːr/ to believe, to think #69
- Tagalog mag-isip/maɡʔiˈsip/ to think #831
- Tamil யோசி/joːtʃiː/ to think, consider, ponder #1,249
- Telugu ఆలోచిస్తాడు/ˈaːloːˌcistaːɖu/ to think, consider, reflect, ponder, ruminate #289
- Turkish bence/benˈd͡ʒe/ I think, in my opinion #167
- Ukrainian думати[ˈdumɐte] to think #885
- Urdu سوچنا/soːt͡ʃ.nɑː/ to think #767
- Vietnamese nghĩ[ŋi˦ˀ˥] to think, to contemplate #67
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.