How to say “train” in 39 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.
- tren/ˈtɾen/ Spanish
- поезд[ˈpo(j)ɪst] Russian
- 기차[kit͡ɕʰa̠] Korean
- ट्रेन/ʈɾeːn/ Hindi
- τρένο[ˈtre̞no̞] Greek
- ট্রেন/ʈɾen/ Bengali
“train” in Spanish: tren · German: zug · Italian: treno · Portuguese: comboio · Korean: 기차 · Russian: поезд · Hindi: ट्रेन · Turkish: tren
It is commonest in Tagalog, where tren is the 267th most used word.
Train in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans trein/trəin/ #551
- Albanian mësuar/məsuaɾ/ to teach, instruct, train #480
- Basque tren/tren/ #742
- Bengali ট্রেন/ʈɾen/ #552
- Bosnian naučiti/naǔt͡ʃiti/ to teach, train, instruct #1,179
- Bulgarian влак[vɫak] #1,833
- Catalan tren[ˈtɾɛn] #922
- Croatian naučiti/naǔt͡ʃiti/ to teach, train, instruct #882
- Czech vlak[ˈvlak] #1,640
- Danish træner/trɛːnər/ to train, coach #1,421
- Dutch trein/trɛi̯n/ #1,207
- Esperanto trajno/ˈtrai̯no/ #580
- Estonian rong/roŋɡ̊/ #1,471
- German zug/t͡suːk/ #1,039
- Greek τρένο[ˈtre̞no̞] #1,241
- Hebrew רכבת/ʁaˈkevet/ train vehicle carrying a large number of… #1,298
- Hindi ट्रेन/ʈɾeːn/ train, rail #1,639
- Icelandic lest[ˈlɛst] train, file, row, line #968
- Indonesian nah/nah/ Used to conclude a speech or train of… #334
- Italian treno/ˈtrɛ.no/ #1,273
- Korean 기차[kit͡ɕʰa̠] #1,398
- Lithuanian traukinys[trɒʊkʲɪ²ˈnʲiːs] #1,046
- Macedonian воз[vɔs] #1,268
- Malayalam ട്രെയിൻ/ʈrejin/ #693
- Norwegian toget/ˈtoːɡə/ a train #1,224
- Persian قطار[qe.t̪ʰɒ́ːɹ] #659
- Polish pociąg/ˈpɔ.t͡ɕɔŋk/ train vehicle carrying a large number of… #2,089
- Portuguese comboio/kõˈboj.u/ #1,251
- Romanian tren/ˈtren/ #1,524
- Russian поезд[ˈpo(j)ɪst] train, a line of connected railway cars #1,765
- Serbian voz/ʋôːz/ #1,226
- Slovak vlak/vlak/ #833
- Slovenian vlak/ʋláːk/ #534
- Spanish tren/ˈtɾen/ #932
- Swedish tåget/ˈtoːɡɛt/ a train #1,555
- Tagalog tren/ˈtɾen/ #267
- Turkish tren/tɾɛn/ #1,344
- Ukrainian поїзд[ˈpɔjizd] #2,091
- 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.