How to say “wake” in 33 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.
“wake” in German: wachen · Turkish: uyan
It is commonest in Hebrew, where העיר is the 355th most used word.
Wake in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian zgjova/zɟɔva/ to wake up, rouse #1,745
- Arabic استيقظ/is.taj.qa.ðˤa/ to wake up #1,146
- Armenian զարթնել/zɑɾtʰˈnel/ to wake up #1,749
- Basque esnatu/es̺natu/ to wake up, to awake #329
- Bosnian probuditi/probǔːditi/ to wake, wake up, awake, awaken #2,202
- Catalan desperta/dəsˈpɛrtə/ to wake, awaken, wake up #1,450
- Chinese 起床/t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɑŋ³⁵/ to get up; to get out of bed; to wake up #717
- Croatian probuditi/probǔːditi/ to wake, wake up, awake, awaken #1,815
- Danish vågn[ˈʋɔwˀn] to awake, to wake #1,142
- Esperanto vekiĝu/veˈkidʒu/ to wake up #1,154
- Estonian ärgata/ˈærɡ̊ɑtɑ/ To recover from sleep; wake up after sleep #2,187
- Finnish herää/ˈheræː/ to wake up, awake, awaken #1,182
- Georgian გაიღვიძე[ɡ̊äiʁʷid͡ze̞] to wake up, to awake #475
- German wachen/ˈvaχən/ wake, vigil #1,966
- Greek ξύπνησα/ˈksi.pni.sa/ to awake, wake up #2,276
- Hebrew העיר/heˈʔiʁ/ To wake, awaken, wake up #355
- Hindi जाग/d͡ʒɑːɡ/ to wake up #1,230
- Hungarian ébredj[ˈeːbrɛɟː] to wake up #2,466
- Icelandic vakna[ˈvahkna] to wake up, to awaken #857
- Indonesian terjaga/tərˈd͡ʒaɡa/ wake up #2,402
- Macedonian разбуди[ˈrazbudi] to wake up #605
- Malay bangun/ˈbaŋon/ to wake up; to get up #321
- Norwegian vakt/ˈvɑkt/ to wake up someone; wake someone, awaken #1,229
- Polish obudź/ˈɔ.but͡ɕ/ to wake #2,064
- Portuguese acordo/aˈkoʁ.du/ to awake; to wake up #450
- Romanian trezi/treˈzʲi/ to get up, wake up #2,239
- Slovak prebudiť/prebuɟic/ to wake up #2,410
- Spanish tras/ˈtɾas/ after, following, in the wake of; upon #753
- Swedish vaknar/ˈvaknar/ to wake up #1,662
- Tagalog gumising/ɡuˈmisiŋ/ to wake up; to awake #592
- Turkish uyan/uˈjan/ to wake, wake up, awaken, waken #1,047
- Urdu جاگ/d͡ʒɑːɡ/ wake; wakefulness #602
- Vietnamese nhân[ɲən˧˧] because of; in the wake of; in the aftermath… #165
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), 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.