How to say “year” in 50 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.
- años/ˈaɲos/ Spanish
- лет[lʲet] Russian
- عام/ʕaːm/ Arabic
- साल/sɑːl/ Hindi
- שנה/ʃaˈna/ Hebrew
- წლის[t͡sʼlis] Georgian
“year” in Spanish: años · French: ans · German: jahre · Italian: anni · Portuguese: anos · Russian: лет · Arabic: عام · Hindi: साल
It is commonest in Basque, where urte is the 79th most used word.
Year in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans jaar/jɑːr/ A year #141
- Albanian vjet/vjɛt/ last year #238
- Arabic عام/ʕaːm/ #206
- Armenian տարի/tɑˈɾi/ #177
- Basque urte/urte/ #79
- Bengali বছর/bɔt͡ʃʰoɾ/ #122
- Bosnian godina/ɡôdina/ #150
- Bulgarian година[ɡoˈdinɐ] #303
- Catalan anys[ˈaɲs] #131
- Chinese 今年/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ni̯ɛn³⁵/ this year #527
- Croatian godina/ɡôdina/ #150
- Czech rok[ˈrok] year, the time it takes a planetary body to… #534
- Danish år/ɔːˀr/ #135
- Dutch jaar/jaːr/ #146
- English months/mʌnθs/ A period into which a year is divided,… #519
- Esperanto jaroj/ˈjaroi̯/ #174
- Estonian aastat/ˈɑːstɑt/ a year #240
- Finnish vuotta/ˈvuotːa/ #188
- French ans/ɑ̃/ #162
- Galician anos/ˈanos/ #95
- Georgian წლის[t͡sʼlis] #134
- German jahre/ˈjaːʁə/ #304
- Greek χρονιά/xroˈɲa/ school year, academic year; year's crop or… #1,737
- Hebrew שנה/ʃaˈna/ #281
- Hindi साल/sɑːl/ #180
- Hungarian év[ˈeːv] #483
- Icelandic ár[ˈauːr] #152
- Indonesian tahun/ˈtahun/ a solar year, the time it takes the Earth to… #104
- Italian anni/ˈan.ni/ #141
- Korean 올[o̞ɭ] this year #234
- Latvian gadu/ˈɡadu/ #257
- Lithuanian metai[²ˈmʲæːtɐɪ] #414
- Macedonian години[ˈɡɔdini] #111
- Malayalam വർഷം/ʋɐrʂɐm/ #233
- Norwegian år/oːɾ/ a year #137
- Persian سال[sɒːl̥] #91
- Polish roku/ˈrɔ.ku/ #348
- Portuguese anos/ˈɐ̃.nus/ #131
- Romanian ani[anʲ] #114
- Russian лет[lʲet] #151
- Serbian godina/ɡôdina/ #148
- Slovak rokov/ˈrɔkɔu̯/ #156
- Slovenian leta/ˈleːta/ #181
- Spanish años/ˈaɲos/ #129
- Swedish år/ˈoːr/ a year #121
- Tagalog taon/taˈʔon/ #107
- Tamil ஆண்டுகளுக்கு #361
- Turkish yıl/ˈjɯɫ/ #195
- Ukrainian років[ˈrɔkʲiu̯] #171
- Urdu سال/sɑːl/ #129
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.