The word “accident” is a crucial term across cultures, used to describe unexpected or unplanned events, often leading to injury or damage. It is a term widely used in daily conversations, as well as in legal and medical contexts. Let’s take a linguistic journey to see how “accident” is expressed in 70 different languages.
Here is a list of how to say “accident” in 70 different languages:
- Albanian (🇦🇱) – Aksident | Pronunciation: Ak-see-dent
- Arabic (Standard) (🇸🇦) – حادث (Hadith) | Pronunciation: Ha-dith
- Armenian (🇦🇲) – Պատահար (Patahar) | Pronunciation: Pa-ta-har
- Azerbaijani (🇦🇿) – Qəza | Pronunciation: Ga-za
- Basque (🇪🇸) – Istripu | Pronunciation: Ees-tree-poo
- Belarusian (🇧🇾) – Аварыя (Avariya) | Pronunciation: Ah-va-ree-ya
- Bengali (🇧🇩) – দুর্ঘটনা (Durghatona) | Pronunciation: Dur-gha-to-na
- Bosnian (🇧🇦) – Nesreća | Pronunciation: Ne-sre-cha
- Bulgarian (🇧🇬) – Инцидент (Intsident) | Pronunciation: In-tsee-dent
- Catalan (🇪🇸 – Catalonia) – Accident | Pronunciation: Ahk-see-dent
- Czech (🇨🇿) – Nehoda | Pronunciation: Ne-ho-da
- Danish (🇩🇰) – Ulykke | Pronunciation: Ul-ik-ke
- Dutch (🇳🇱) – Ongeval | Pronunciation: On-ge-val
- English (🇺🇸 / 🇬🇧) – Accident | Pronunciation: Ak-si-dent
- Estonian (🇪🇪) – Õnnetus | Pronunciation: Un-ne-tus
- Farsi (Persian) (🇮🇷) – تصادف (Tasādof) | Pronunciation: Ta-sa-dof
- Finnish (🇫🇮) – Onnettomuus | Pronunciation: On-net-to-moos
- French (🇫🇷) – Accident | Pronunciation: Ak-see-don
- Georgian (🇬🇪) – ავარია (Avaria) | Pronunciation: Ah-va-ree-a
- German (🇩🇪) – Unfall | Pronunciation: Oon-fahl
- Greek (🇬🇷) – Ατύχημα (Atychima) | Pronunciation: Ah-tee-hee-ma
- Hebrew (🇮🇱) – תאונה (Teuna) | Pronunciation: Teh-oo-nah
- Hindi (🇮🇳) – दुर्घटना (Durghatna) | Pronunciation: Dur-ghat-na
- Hungarian (🇭🇺) – Baleset | Pronunciation: Ba-le-set
- Icelandic (🇮🇸) – Slys | Pronunciation: Slis
- Indonesian (🇮🇩) – Kecelakaan | Pronunciation: Ke-che-la-ka-an
- Irish Gaelic (🇮🇪) – Timpiste | Pronunciation: Tim-pish-te
- Italian (🇮🇹) – Incidente | Pronunciation: In-chee-den-te
- Japanese (🇯🇵) – 事故 (Jiko) | Pronunciation: Jee-ko
- Kazakh (🇰🇿) – Апат (Apat) | Pronunciation: Ah-pat
- Khmer (Cambodian) (🇰🇭) – គ្រោះថ្នាក់ (Kros thanak) | Pronunciation: Kroh tha-nak
- Korean (🇰🇷) – 사고 (Sago) | Pronunciation: Sah-go
- Kurdish (🇮🇶 / 🇸🇾 / 🇹🇷 / 🇮🇷) – Rûdaw | Pronunciation: Roo-daw
- Kyrgyz (🇰🇬) – Кырсык (Kyrsyk) | Pronunciation: Kyr-syk
- Lao (🇱🇦) – ອຸບັດຕິບັດ (Ubatdibad) | Pronunciation: Oo-bat-di-bat
- Latvian (🇱🇻) – Negadījums | Pronunciation: Ne-ga-dee-yums
- Lithuanian (🇱🇹) – Nelaimė | Pronunciation: Ne-lai-me
- Luxembourgish (🇱🇺) – Accident | Pronunciation: Ak-see-dent
- Macedonian (🇲🇰) – Несреќа (Nesrekja) | Pronunciation: Ne-srek-ya
- Malay (🇲🇾 / 🇮🇩) – Kemalangan | Pronunciation: Ke-ma-lan-gan
- Maltese (🇲🇹) – Inċident | Pronunciation: In-chee-dent
- Mandarin Chinese (🇨🇳) – 事故 (Shìgù) | Pronunciation: Shee-goo
- Marathi (🇮🇳) – अपघात (Apghāt) | Pronunciation: Ap-ghat
- Mongolian (🇲🇳) – Ослын (Oslyn) | Pronunciation: Os-lin
- Nepali (🇳🇵) – दुर्घटना (Durghatna) | Pronunciation: Dur-ghat-na
- Norwegian (🇳🇴) – Ulykke | Pronunciation: Ul-ik-ke
- Pashto (🇦🇫) – پېښه (Pekha) | Pronunciation: Pay-kha
- Persian (Farsi) (🇮🇷) – حادثه (Hadeseh) | Pronunciation: Ha-de-se
- Polish (🇵🇱) – Wypadek | Pronunciation: Vy-pa-tek
- Portuguese (🇵🇹 / 🇧🇷) – Acidente | Pronunciation: A-see-den-te
- Romanian (🇷🇴) – Accident | Pronunciation: Ak-see-dent
- Russian (🇷🇺) – Авария (Avariya) | Pronunciation: A-va-ree-ya
- Serbian (🇷🇸) – Несрећа (Nesreća) | Pronunciation: Ne-sre-cha
- Sinhala (🇱🇰) – අනතුර (Anathura) | Pronunciation: A-na-thu-ra
- Slovak (🇸🇰) – Nehoda | Pronunciation: Ne-ho-da
- Slovenian (🇸🇮) – Nesreča | Pronunciation: Ne-sre-cha
- Somali (🇸🇴) – Shil | Pronunciation: Sheel
- Spanish (🇪🇸) – Accidente | Pronunciation: Ak-see-den-te
- Swahili (🇰🇪 / 🇹🇿) – Ajali | Pronunciation: A-ja-lee
- Swedish (🇸🇪) – Olycka | Pronunciation: Oo-lyk-ka
- Tajik (🇹🇯) – Садама (Sadama) | Pronunciation: Sa-da-ma
- Tamil (🇮🇳) – விபத்து (Vipattu) | Pronunciation: Vi-pat-tu
- Telugu (🇮🇳) – ప్రమాదం (Pramādaṁ) | Pronunciation: Pra-maa-dam
- Thai (🇹🇭) – อุบัติเหตุ (Ubatithet) | Pronunciation: Oo-ba-ti-tet
- Turkish (🇹🇷) – Kaza | Pronunciation: Ka-za
- Ukrainian (🇺🇦) – Аварія (Avariya) | Pronunciation: Ah-va-ree-ya
- Urdu (🇵🇰) – حادثہ (Haadsa) | Pronunciation: Haad-sa
- Uzbek (🇺🇿) – Baxtsiz hodisa | Pronunciation: Bakh-tsiz ho-di-sa
- Vietnamese (🇻🇳) – Tai nạn | Pronunciation: Thai nan
- Welsh (🇬🇧 – Wales) – Damwain | Pronunciation: Dam-wine