How to say “visit” in 38 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.
- visita/biˈsita/ Spanish
- زيارة/zi.jaː.ra/ Arabic
- 방문[ˈpa̠(ː)ŋmun] Korean
- επίσκεψη/eˈpiscepˌsi/ Greek
- այցելել/ɑjt͡sʰeˈlel/ Armenian
- സന്ദർശനം/sɐn̪d̪ɐrʃɐnɐm/ Malayalam
“visit” in Spanish: visita · French: visite · German: besuch · Italian: visita · Portuguese: visita · Korean: 방문 · Arabic: زيارة · Turkish: ziyaret
It is commonest in Finnish, where käy is the 233rd most used word.
Visit in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans besoek/bəˈsuk/ to visit #248
- Albanian vizitoj/viziˈtɔj/ to visit #2,204
- Arabic زيارة/zi.jaː.ra/ #1,363
- Armenian այցելել/ɑjt͡sʰeˈlel/ to visit #827
- Basque bisita/bis̺ita/ #650
- Bosnian posjetiti/pǒsjetiti/ to visit #2,291
- Bulgarian посещение[posɛʃˈtɛniɛ] #2,456
- Catalan visita[biˈzi.tə] to visit #1,153
- Croatian posjetiti/pǒsjetiti/ to visit #1,581
- Czech navštívit[ˈnafʃciːvɪt] to visit #1,613
- Danish besøg[b̥eˈsøˀj] to visit #1,062
- Dutch bezoek/bəˈzuk/ to visit #1,083
- English shopping/ˈʃɑpɪŋ/ To visit stores or shops to browse or explore… #2,123
- Esperanto viziti/viˈziti/ to visit #901
- Finnish käy/ˈkæy̯/ to visit, go to, attend #233
- French visite/vi.zit/ #928
- Galician visita/biˈsita/ to visit #991
- German besuch/bəˈzuːχ/ visit, call #1,236
- Greek επίσκεψη/eˈpiscepˌsi/ #2,027
- Hebrew ביקור/biˈkuʁ/ A visit: an act of visiting #1,891
- Hindi दौरा/d̪ɔː.ɾɑː/ tour, visit; circuit #1,227
- Icelandic heimsækja/ˈheimsaica/ to visit, to pay a visit #1,118
- Indonesian mengunjungi/məŋundˈʒuŋi/ to visit #1,396
- Italian visita/ˈvi.zi.ta/ #1,165
- Korean 방문[ˈpa̠(ː)ŋmun] visit; visiting #2,371
- Lithuanian lankyti[lɐŋʲ¹ˈkʲiːtʲɪ] to visit #2,350
- Macedonian посета[ˈpɔsɛta] #1,324
- Malay melawat/məˈlawat/ to visit #1,135
- Malayalam സന്ദർശനം/sɐn̪d̪ɐrʃɐnɐm/ visit; visiting #2,257
- Norwegian besøk/bəˈsøːk/ to visit #1,008
- Portuguese visita/viˈzi.tɐ/ to visit #1,357
- Romanian vizită/ˈviziˌtə/ #1,333
- Slovenian obisk/ɔbisk/ #530
- Spanish visita/biˈsita/ to visit #1,353
- Swedish besök/bɛˈsøːk/ to visit #1,259
- Tagalog bisitahin/bisiˈtahin/ to visit; to make a visit to #1,460
- Turkish ziyaret[zijɑːɾɛt] #952
- Vietnamese thăm[tʰam˧˧] to visit; to call on #874
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 Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 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.