How to say “yours” in 32 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.
“yours” in Spanish: tuyo · German: deine
It is commonest in Romanian, where ta is the 79th most used word.
Yours in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans joune/ˈjœu̯nə/ yours; thine #390
- Albanian yti/ˈyti/ definite of yt = yours, thine #1,164
- Armenian քոնը/ˈkʰonə/ #1,009
- Bosnian tvoj/tʋôːj/ your, yours #133
- Bulgarian твоята[ˈtvɔjɐtɐ] your, yours #377
- Catalan teu[ˈtew] your, yours #70
- Croatian tvoj/tʋôːj/ your, yours #144
- Czech vaše[ˈvaʃɛ] your, yours #160
- Esperanto via/ˈvia/ your, yours #33
- French vôtre/votʁ/ your; yours #1,811
- Galician teu/ˈtew/ #82
- Georgian შენი[ʃe̞ni] your, yours #23
- German deine/ˈdaɪ̯nə/ yours, thine #120
- Greek δικό/ðiˈko/ mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs #227
- Hungarian tiéd[ˈtijeːd] #710
- Icelandic yðar[ˈɪːðar] your, yours #1,523
- Indonesian kau/ˈkau̯/ Second-person singular pronoun: you, your,… #2
- Korean 드림[tɯɾim] yours sincerely; used after the name in the… #2,425
- Latvian jūsu/ˈjuːsu/ your, yours, of you; genitive plural of jūs #73
- Macedonian твој[tvɔj] your, yours #435
- Norwegian din/diːn/ your, yours #49
- Polish twój/ˈtfuj/ singular second person possessive pronoun;… #125
- Romanian ta/ta/ #79
- Russian твой[tvoj] your, yours, thy, thine #149
- Serbian tvoj/tʋôːj/ your, yours #140
- Slovak tvoj/tvɔj/ your, yours #114
- Slovenian vaš/ʋáʃ/ your, yours #192
- Spanish tuyo/ˈtuʝo/ #749
- Swedish din/dɪn/ your, yours #47
- Telugu మీది/ˈmiːdi/ yours - that which belongs to you as… #999
- Ukrainian твоя[twɔˈja] your, yours, thy, thine #127
- Urdu تیرا/t̪eː.ɾɑː/ second-person singular possessive pronoun:… #1,226
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) 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.