How to say “watch” in 45 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.
- следить[s⁽ʲ⁾lʲɪˈdʲitʲ] Russian
- უყურებს[uχʼuɾe̞bs] Georgian
- পাহারা/pahaɾa/ Bengali
“watch” in French: gardes · German: schau · Russian: следить
It is commonest in Hungarian, where figyelj is the 220th most used word.
Watch in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans horlosie/ɦɔrˈlʊə̯si/ #664
- Albanian pashë/paʃə/ to watch, look, observe #293
- Arabic حذر/ħaðira/ to watch out #2,290
- Armenian հսկել/həsˈkel/ to watch over, to guard, to supervise, to… #1,147
- Bengali পাহারা/pahaɾa/ watching or guarding; a watch, watchman,… #1,108
- Bosnian sat/sâːt/ clock, watch #441
- Bulgarian изглеждам[izˈɡlɛʒdɐm] to watch #1,152
- Catalan mira[ˈmi.ɾə] to look, to look at, to watch #162
- Chinese 照看/ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ kʰän⁵¹/ to watch over; to look after #1,318
- Croatian sat/sâːt/ clock, watch #438
- Czech hodinky[ˈɦoɟɪŋkɪ] #1,877
- Danish vagt[ˈvɑɡ̊d̥] guard, watch #1,177
- Dutch horloge/ɦɔrˈloː.ʒə/ #2,128
- Esperanto rigardu/riˈɡardu/ to look at, behold, watch, view #115
- Estonian vaata/ˈvɑːtɑ/ to look, to look at, to watch #102
- Finnish kello/ˈkelːo/ #441
- French gardes/ɡaʁd/ a watch, guard #1,590
- Galician olla/ˈoʎa/ to look; to watch; to observe #1,137
- Georgian უყურებს[uχʼuɾe̞bs] to watch, look at #724
- German schau/ʃaʊ̯/ to watch, to view #504
- Greek δω/ˈðo/ to see, watch, look at #130
- Hebrew זהירות/zehiˈʁut/ Watch out! #895
- Hindi देखो/d̪eː.kʰoː/ to see, to look, to watch #120
- Hungarian figyelj[ˈfiɟɛjː] to watch, to observe, to pay attention,… #220
- Icelandic gæta[ˈcaiːta] to watch over, look after, guard, protect #893
- Indonesian jaga/ˈd͡ʒaɡa/ to watch over, to keep, to guard #687
- Italian guarda/ˈɡwar.da/ to look at, to watch, to glance or gaze at #246
- Korean 볼[po̞ɭ] to see, to look at, to watch #177
- Latvian pulkstenis[pùlkstɛnis] clock, watch #1,266
- Lithuanian žiūrėk[ʒʲu̟ː¹ˈrʲeːk] to look at; to look into, observe; to watch #209
- Macedonian пази[ˈpazi] to watch, keep, take heed of, take care of #664
- Malay menonton/məˈnonton/ to watch #674
- Persian گشت[ɡʲeʃt̪ʰ] patrol, watch #1,202
- Polish uważaj/uˈva.ʐaj/ to watch out, to take care, to look out #683
- Romanian urmări/ur.məˈri/ to watch; to follow, to pursue #2,034
- Russian следить[s⁽ʲ⁾lʲɪˈdʲitʲ] to watch, to follow, to spy #2,171
- Serbian sat/sâːt/ clock, watch #452
- Slovenian gledati/ɡlèːdati/ to watch, to observe; to view #453
- Swedish kolla/ˈkɔˌla/ to look, to watch #293
- Tagalog relo/ɾeˈlo/ #599
- Tamil பாதுகாப்பு/pɑːd̪ʊɡɑːpːɯ/ protection, guard, watch #160
- Turkish görmek/ɟøɾˈmec/ to see, watch #239
- Ukrainian дивитися[deˈʋɪtesʲɐ] to watch, to look #976
- Urdu دیکھنے/d̪eːkʰ.neː/ to look, see, watch #244
- Vietnamese xem[sɛm˧˧] to see; to look at; to watch; to read #128
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).
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