Dig in Different Languages
Discover 'Dig' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Dig
Afrikaans jy | ||
Albanian ti | ||
Amharic አንቺ | ||
Arabic أنت | ||
Armenian դու | ||
Assamese আপুনি | ||
Aymara juma | ||
Azerbaijani sən | ||
Bambara i | ||
Basque zuk | ||
Belarusian вы | ||
Bengali আপনি | ||
Bhojpuri रऊवाॅं | ||
Bosnian ti | ||
Bulgarian ти | ||
Catalan vostè | ||
Cebuano ikaw | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 您 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 您 | ||
Corsican tù | ||
Croatian vas | ||
Czech vy | ||
Danish du | ||
Dhivehi ތިބާ | ||
Dogri तूं | ||
Dutch u | ||
English dig | ||
Esperanto vi | ||
Estonian sina | ||
Ewe wò | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ikaw | ||
Finnish sinä | ||
French toi | ||
Frisian jo | ||
Galician ti | ||
Georgian შენ | ||
German sie | ||
Greek εσείς | ||
Guarani nde | ||
Gujarati તમે | ||
Haitian Creole ou menm | ||
Hausa kai | ||
Hawaiian ʻo ʻoe | ||
Hebrew אתה | ||
Hindi आप | ||
Hmong koj | ||
Hungarian te | ||
Icelandic þú | ||
Igbo gị | ||
Ilocano sika | ||
Indonesian kamu | ||
Irish tú | ||
Italian tu | ||
Japanese 君は | ||
Javanese sampeyan | ||
Kannada ನೀವು | ||
Kazakh сен | ||
Khmer អ្នក | ||
Kinyarwanda wowe | ||
Konkani तूं | ||
Korean 당신 | ||
Krio yu | ||
Kurdish hûn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) تۆ | ||
Kyrgyz сен | ||
Lao ເຈົ້າ | ||
Latin vos | ||
Latvian jūs | ||
Lingala yo | ||
Lithuanian tu | ||
Luganda ggwe | ||
Luxembourgish dir | ||
Macedonian ти | ||
Maithili अहां | ||
Malagasy ianareo | ||
Malay awak | ||
Malayalam നിങ്ങൾ | ||
Maltese int | ||
Maori koe | ||
Marathi आपण | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯗꯣꯝ | ||
Mizo nangmah | ||
Mongolian та | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မင်း | ||
Nepali तपाईं | ||
Norwegian du | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) inu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ତୁମେ | ||
Oromo ati | ||
Pashto تاسو | ||
Persian شما | ||
Polish ty | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) vocês | ||
Punjabi ਤੁਸੀਂ | ||
Quechua qam | ||
Romanian tu | ||
Russian ты | ||
Samoan oe | ||
Sanskrit त्वम् | ||
Scots Gaelic thu | ||
Sepedi wena | ||
Serbian ти | ||
Sesotho uena | ||
Shona iwe | ||
Sindhi توهان | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඔයා | ||
Slovak ty | ||
Slovenian ti | ||
Somali adiga | ||
Spanish tú | ||
Sundanese anjeun | ||
Swahili wewe | ||
Swedish dig | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ikaw | ||
Tajik шумо | ||
Tamil நீங்கள் | ||
Tatar син | ||
Telugu మీరు | ||
Thai คุณ | ||
Tigrinya ንስኻ | ||
Tsonga wena | ||
Turkish sen | ||
Turkmen sen | ||
Twi (Akan) wo | ||
Ukrainian ти | ||
Urdu تم | ||
Uyghur سىز | ||
Uzbek siz | ||
Vietnamese bạn | ||
Welsh ti | ||
Xhosa wena | ||
Yiddish דו | ||
Yoruba ìwọ | ||
Zulu wena |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "jy" has an alternate spelling of "gy" and is cognate with the Dutch "jij" (you). |
| Albanian | "Ti" [dig] is also commonly used with the meaning of "to get into" or "to become part of" something. |
| Amharic | The word "አንቺ" in Amharic can also refer to an act of excavating or creating a hole, as well as a groove or channel. |
| Arabic | "أنت" can also mean "you" and "to lead" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "դու" also means "you" in the second person singular. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "Sən" (dig) shares an etymology with the Turkic word "sindi" (break), denoting the act of breaking the ground. |
| Basque | The Basque word 'zuk' also means 'you', and is related to the word 'zuzen', meaning 'straight'. |
| Belarusian | "Вы" can also mean "to dig through" or "to dig up" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | "আপনি" (dig) is an onomatopoeia derived from the sound a hoe or spade makes when it hits the ground. |
| Bosnian | The word "ti" in Bosnian is also used to describe the act of carving or engraving. |
| Bulgarian | The word "ти" also means "you" in the second person plural in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | "Vostè" is derived from Latin "vos", used in polite third-person address. |
| Cebuano | The word "ikaw" in Cebuano can also refer to the act of scratching or itching. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 您 is a respectful way to address a person in Chinese. It is often used in formal settings or when speaking to someone older or superior. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "您" also means "you (formal)" in Chinese and is pronounced "nín" in Mandarin. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word 'tù' can also refer to a 'hole', 'ditch', 'grave', 'trench', or 'well'. |
| Croatian | The word "vas" can also mean "village" in Croatian. |
| Czech | "Vy" can refer to the digging tool or the action of carving something |
| Danish | The Danish word "du" can also mean "you" or "thou". |
| Dutch | The word "u" in Dutch is derived from the Latin "fossa", meaning "ditch". It can also mean "grave" or "pit". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "vi" also means "us" in Latin and "we" in Old Prussian. |
| Estonian | The word "sina" also means "you" in the second person singular in Estonian. |
| Finnish | Despite being derived from Germanic, "sinä" originally meant "this" or "here". Only later did it acquire its present meaning. |
| French | "Toi" comes from the Old French word "tuier" which also meant to "kill" and is related to the English word "toll" |
| Frisian | The Frisian word 'jo' also means 'you' in English. |
| Galician | The word "ti" in Galician, meaning "dig," is also related to the English word "tine," referring to the prongs of a pitchfork. |
| Georgian | The verb |
| German | German "Sie" also means "they" like the English personal pronoun |
| Greek | The word "εσείς" also means "you" in Greek, and is derived from the Old Greek word "σφέ"} |
| Gujarati | The term "તમે" can also be used to mean "you", or as a verb meaning "to eat". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, the word "ou menm" can also mean "to insist" or "to be persistent" |
| Hausa | In the phrase "kai maka," "kai" means "hole." |
| Hawaiian | ʼO ʼoe, meaning "to dig" in Hawaiian, derives from Proto-Austronesian *ququr, which also meant "to dig". |
| Hebrew | The word "אתה" (dig) can also be a pronoun that means "you." |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "आप" is an imperative form of the verb "आपना" (āpnā), which means "to acquire; to gain."} |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "koj" also means "to sow (seeds)" and "to plant (plants)". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "te" (dig) probably originates from the Proto-Indo-European root *dheǵʰ- (to set or fix), which is also the source of the English word "do". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "þú" can also be used as a form of address for a familiar second-person singular, similar to the English "thou". |
| Igbo | Igbo word "gị" can also mean "do" or "perform" an action |
| Indonesian | The colloquial meaning of "kamu" in Indonesian, which means "you," is also found in its cognates in other Austronesian languages. |
| Irish | In Irish, "tú" can also refer to a small hill or mound. |
| Italian | "Tu" in Italian can also mean "you" (singular, informal), and comes from the Latin "tu" and the Proto-Indo-European root "*teu-." |
| Japanese | 君は was borrowed into Japanese from Portuguese and now has two distinct readings depending on the kanji used. |
| Javanese | Sampeyan has several meanings in Javanese, including 'you' (formal), 'your', and 'dig' depending on context. |
| Kannada | The Kannada verb "ನೀವು" can also mean "to push" or "to thrust". |
| Kazakh | The word "сен" also means "to pierce" or "to bore" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The word “អ្នក” can also mean “scoop” or “scrape” in Khmer, suggesting its diverse range of uses related to excavation or removal of substances. |
| Korean | The Korean word "당신" can also be used as a polite form of "you". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "hûn" can also refer to "a hole dug in the ground". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "сен" can also refer to a specific type of digging tool. |
| Lao | The word ເຈົ້າ is also used to refer to a small hoe used for gardening. |
| Latin | "Vos" in Latin also means "voice" or "thou" (2nd person singular subject pronoun). |
| Latvian | The word "jūs" also means "you" (second person plural) in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "tu" also means "you" in the singular and informal second person, but it can also be used as a reflexive pronoun meaning "yourself". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Dir" in Luxembourgish can also mean "you" in the formal sense or "you all" in the informal sense. |
| Macedonian | "Ти" (dig) is a verb that can also mean to poke, prod, or search. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "ianareo" not only means "to dig" but also signifies "to bury", especially with respect to burying the dead. |
| Malay | "Awak" is derived from Sanskrit "udak" meaning "to dig up" and also refers to "a place where water springs up" in the Malay language. |
| Malayalam | The word "dig" in Malayalam (നിങ്ങൾ) can also mean "you" in the plural form. |
| Maltese | Maltese "int" may originate from the Arabic word "'int", meaning "to thrust", or it may have an alternate meaning of "to pick" or "to gather". |
| Maori | In Maori, |
| Marathi | The word "आपण" ("dig") in Marathi also means "one" or "self", implying the idea of self-excavation or introspection. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "Та" can also mean "to strike" or "to carve". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In Old Burmese, "မင်း" also meant "to search for something." |
| Nepali | The term 'तपाईं' can also signify deep respect for the individual. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "du" derives from the Old Norse term meaning "to push" or "to thrust". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "inu" also means "to search" or "to investigate". |
| Pashto | The word "تاسو" also means "to dig up" in Persian and "to hollow out" in Sanskrit. |
| Persian | The Persian word "شما" ("dig") can also mean "scratch", "claw", or "scrape". |
| Polish | Ty means 'you' in Polish but was originally used as a form of address to superiors. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Brazil, "vocês" is also used as a formal pronoun for politeness, but it is not the case in Portugal. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "tu" also means "you" in singular accusative or nominative pronoun form. |
| Russian | The word "ты" (ty) can also mean 'you' in the Russian language. |
| Samoan | The word "oe" also denotes the process of scooping, as in the extraction of a coconut from its husk. |
| Scots Gaelic | In older Gaelic, 'thu' meant both 'dig' and 'cut', with 'dig' being the primary meaning. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "ти" can also refer to the "body" or the "self." |
| Sesotho | One possible etymology of the Sesotho word "uena" is that it originates from the Nguni word "ukumba," meaning "to dig or excavate." |
| Shona | The Shona verb "iwe" also means "to excavate" or "to extract". |
| Sindhi | The word "توهان" in Sindhi can also refer to a depression or cavity in the ground. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "ඔයා" also means "you" in colloquial Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word "ty" can also mean "you" in the Slovak language. |
| Slovenian | Slovenian 'ti' comes from Proto-Slavic *titi, meaning 'to cut, crush, strike, beat, etc.' |
| Somali | The Somali word 'adiga' can also mean 'you' in the singular second person. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "tú" derives from the Latin word "tu" meaning "you" and is also related to the English word "thou". |
| Sundanese | Anjeun also refers to a type of small, sharp knife used in West Java and Banten for various purposes such as cutting and peeling vegetables or fruit. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, 'wewe' also denotes 'you', the second person singular pronoun, often used in familiar terms. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "dig" can also mean "cool" or "awesome". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "ikaw" also means "you" and is related to the Malay "engkau" and Javanese "kowe". |
| Tajik | The word шумо, meaning "to dig," in Tajik is likely derived from the same Proto-Indo-European root as the English word "to excavate." |
| Tamil | நீங்கள் can also mean a measurement of length equal to about 1 yard. |
| Telugu | In Telugu, "మీరు" can also refer to 'you' as a respectful second-person singular pronoun. |
| Thai | 'คุณ' is also the Thai word for 'you', which is a homonym to the word for 'dig'. |
| Turkish | Its other meanings include "to understand" and "a measure of weight in Iran" |
| Ukrainian | "Ти" in Ukrainian can also refer to "you" in the informal singular or plural. |
| Urdu | The word "تم" in Urdu has additional meanings like "foundation" or "grave" beyond its primary meaning of "dig". |
| Uzbek | The word "siz" in Uzbek also means "excavate" or "dredge". |
| Vietnamese | In slang, **ban** can also mean "to criticize" or "to gossip." |
| Welsh | The word "ti" also means "to cover" or "to conceal" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | The word "wena" in Xhosa can also mean "to remove" or "to separate" |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "דו" (dig) is also used in the sense of "to search for" or "to investigate". |
| Yoruba | The spelling ''ìwọ'' in Yoruba also means ''you'' in English, depending on the context of its usage in a sentence. |
| Zulu | The term "wena" may also denote a place or an event in a spatial or temporal sense. |
| English | The verb "dig" comes from the Middle English word "diken," which means "to strike or pierce." |