Fourth in Different Languages
Discover 'Fourth' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Fourth
Afrikaans vierde | ||
Albanian i katërti | ||
Amharic አራተኛ | ||
Arabic الرابع | ||
Armenian չորրորդ | ||
Assamese চতুৰ্থ | ||
Aymara pusiri | ||
Azerbaijani dördüncü | ||
Bambara naaninan | ||
Basque laugarrena | ||
Belarusian чацвёрты | ||
Bengali চতুর্থ | ||
Bhojpuri चउथा स्थान पर बा | ||
Bosnian četvrti | ||
Bulgarian четвърти | ||
Catalan quart | ||
Cebuano ikaupat | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 第四 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 第四 | ||
Corsican quartu | ||
Croatian četvrti | ||
Czech čtvrtý | ||
Danish fjerde | ||
Dhivehi ހަތަރުވަނައެވެ | ||
Dogri चौथा | ||
Dutch vierde | ||
English fourth | ||
Esperanto kvara | ||
Estonian neljas | ||
Ewe enelia | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pang-apat | ||
Finnish neljäs | ||
French quatrième | ||
Frisian fjirde | ||
Galician cuarto | ||
Georgian მეოთხე | ||
German vierte | ||
Greek τέταρτος | ||
Guarani irundyha | ||
Gujarati ચોથું | ||
Haitian Creole katriyèm | ||
Hausa na huɗu | ||
Hawaiian ka 'ehā | ||
Hebrew רביעי | ||
Hindi चौथी | ||
Hmong plaub | ||
Hungarian negyedik | ||
Icelandic fjórða | ||
Igbo nke anọ | ||
Ilocano maikapat | ||
Indonesian keempat | ||
Irish ceathrú | ||
Italian il quarto | ||
Japanese 第4 | ||
Javanese kaping papat | ||
Kannada ನಾಲ್ಕನೇ | ||
Kazakh төртінші | ||
Khmer ទីបួន | ||
Kinyarwanda kane | ||
Konkani चवथें | ||
Korean 네번째 | ||
Krio di nɔmba 4 | ||
Kurdish çarem | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) چوارەم | ||
Kyrgyz төртүнчү | ||
Lao ສີ່ | ||
Latin quartus | ||
Latvian ceturtais | ||
Lingala ya minei | ||
Lithuanian ketvirta | ||
Luganda eky’okuna | ||
Luxembourgish véierten | ||
Macedonian четврто | ||
Maithili चारिम | ||
Malagasy fahefatra | ||
Malay keempat | ||
Malayalam നാലാമത്തെ | ||
Maltese ir-raba ' | ||
Maori tuawha | ||
Marathi चौथा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯔꯤꯁꯨꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo palina a ni | ||
Mongolian дөрөв дэх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စတုတ်ထ | ||
Nepali चौथो | ||
Norwegian fjerde | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) wachinayi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଚତୁର୍ଥ | ||
Oromo afraffaadha | ||
Pashto څلورم | ||
Persian چهارم | ||
Polish czwarty | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) quarto | ||
Punjabi ਚੌਥਾ | ||
Quechua tawa kaq | ||
Romanian al patrulea | ||
Russian четвертый | ||
Samoan tulaga fa | ||
Sanskrit चतुर्थः | ||
Scots Gaelic an ceathramh | ||
Sepedi ya bone | ||
Serbian четврти | ||
Sesotho ea bone | ||
Shona chechina | ||
Sindhi چوٿون | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හතරවන | ||
Slovak štvrtý | ||
Slovenian četrti | ||
Somali afraad | ||
Spanish cuarto | ||
Sundanese kaopat | ||
Swahili nne | ||
Swedish fjärde | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pang-apat | ||
Tajik чорум | ||
Tamil நான்காவது | ||
Tatar дүртенче | ||
Telugu నాల్గవది | ||
Thai ประการที่สี่ | ||
Tigrinya ራብዓይ | ||
Tsonga xa vumune | ||
Turkish dördüncü | ||
Turkmen dördünji | ||
Twi (Akan) nea ɛto so anan | ||
Ukrainian четвертий | ||
Urdu چوتھا | ||
Uyghur تۆتىنچى | ||
Uzbek to'rtinchi | ||
Vietnamese thứ tư | ||
Welsh pedwerydd | ||
Xhosa isine | ||
Yiddish פערטער | ||
Yoruba ẹkẹrin | ||
Zulu okwesine |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Vierde is directly derived from the Dutch "vierde", meaning "fourth" in English |
| Albanian | i katërti is related to the Greek tetrártis and derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *kwetwóres which also gave rise to the Latin quattuor and the Slavic četyre. |
| Amharic | The name comes from the Amharic word 'ar', (meaning 'one'), and 'tatenh' (meaning 'three'), and the literal meaning is "one and three". |
| Arabic | The word "الرابع" ("fourth") in Arabic also has the connotation of "the last" or "the final" in certain contexts. |
| Armenian | չորրորդ is cognate to English 'quarter' as well as 'fourth', both derived from Proto-Indo-European root *kʷetwóres 'four'. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "dördüncü" is derived from the Proto-Turkic word "dört", meaning "four", and the Proto-Turkic suffix "-üncü", meaning "belonging to." |
| Basque | In Basque the word "laugarrena" is both the ordinal and cardinal form of the number "four". |
| Belarusian | The word "чацвёрты" in Belarusian cognates with "четверг" (Thursday) in Russian, as both words stem from the Proto-Slavic word "*četvьrtъ", meaning "quarter". |
| Bengali | The Bengali word 'চতুর্থ' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'चतुर्थ' (caturtha), meaning 'fourth'. |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, 'četvrti' can refer to both 'fourth' and 'Thursday', sharing a root with 'four' and 'quarter'. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "четвърти" also has the alternate meaning of "room". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "quart" can also refer to a measure of capacity equivalent to a liter. |
| Cebuano | The term "ikaupat" also means "the fourth of two persons or items" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character 第 also appears in words like 弟子 (dìzǐ) "student" and 地点 (dìdiǎn) "location." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | It is also used as a measure word for generations, such as "第四代" (fourth generation). |
| Corsican | The Corsican word Quartu (meaning "fourth") is derived from the Latin word quartus, meaning "fourth in a series". |
| Croatian | The word 'četvrti' also means 'a quarter' (of an hour) in Croatian. |
| Czech | The Czech word "Čtvrtý" also means "a quarter hour", derived from its historical definition: the fourth hour, which was 9 a.m. |
| Danish | In Danish, 'fjerde' shares its etymological roots with 'fjær' (feather), suggesting a possible connection between the two concepts. |
| Dutch | "Vierde" in Dutch can also mean "greenish". |
| Esperanto | "Kvara" is also the name of a Georgian footballer. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "neljas" is cognate with the Finnish word "neljä" and the English word "four". |
| Finnish | "Neljäs" also means "quadruple" or "quaternary" in Finnish. |
| French | The word "Quatrième" in French derives from the Latin "Quartus", meaning "the fourth in order". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word 'fjirde' also means 'quarter' and is derived from the Proto-Germanic word 'feorðe', meaning 'fourth'. |
| Galician | Galician "cuarto" can also mean "room" or "quarter". |
| Georgian | "მეოთხე" derives from the Proto-Kartvelian root "*okwt'i", meaning "four" or "quadruple". |
| German | The word "vierte" in German also refers to a musical interval of four notes and a quarter of a circle. |
| Greek | τέταρτος also means "quartan" (fever) when used in medicine. |
| Gujarati | The word "ચોથું" ("fourth") in Gujarati can also be used to refer to the number of days after a new moon. |
| Haitian Creole | Katriyèm, meaning "fourth," also has a less common idiomatic meaning of "the best." |
| Hausa | The word "na huɗu" also means "four in a row" in the context of games, while "húɗu-húɗu" means "very slowly". |
| Hawaiian | "Ka 'ehā" also means "to wait". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "רביעי" also means "teacher" or "spiritual guide"} |
| Hindi | The word "चौथी" can also refer to the fourth lunar day of the Hindu calendar. |
| Hmong | The word plaub is derived from an archaic word meaning 'part', and is related to the words for three and five. |
| Hungarian | The word "negyedik" comes from the Proto-Ugric word *ńekete, meaning "small". |
| Icelandic | Fjórða, when used in Icelandic place names, denotes a farm that once paid 1/4 of a 'vatn' (a customary unit of land area) in tithes to the local church. |
| Igbo | Nke anọ translates as "fourth" in Igbo, but also refers to the "fourth in order" or "the last" in Igbo ordinal numbers, as it was the last number to be coined. |
| Indonesian | The word "keempat" can also be used to indicate the fourth position in a sequence, or the fourth part of a whole. |
| Irish | The Irish "ceathrú" shares a similar root to "quarter" and the Latin word for square or four "quattor" |
| Italian | "Il quarto" in Italian can also refer to a room in a house, particularly a bedroom. |
| Japanese | 第四 is also the name of a flower card in Japanese flower cards (hanafuda) and is called "shi" when used as such. |
| Javanese | "kaping papat" also means "to the fourth generation, to a grandchild" or "on all fours, in a quadrupedal position" |
| Kannada | The word "ನಾಲ್ಕನೆೇ" (nālkaneē) can also be used as a noun to mean "a quarter". |
| Kazakh | The word "төртінші" (fourth) in Kazakh is derived from the Proto-Turkic word "*tört" (four) and the suffix "-інші" (order). |
| Khmer | The Khmer word ទីបួន comes from the Sanskrit word "catvar", which also means "fourth". |
| Korean | 네번째 also means 'one's place in marriage' or 'a spouse' in Korean. |
| Kurdish | Çarem (fourth) also means "remedy" or "solution" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word төртүнчү in Kyrgyz (fourth) is derived from the word төрт (four) and the suffix -үнчү, which indicates "the one who is fourth or in the fourth position." |
| Lao | The word "ສີ່" derives from Pali "cattāro" and Sanskrit "catvāra." |
| Latin | "Quartus" is the masculine nominative singular form of a word in Latin meaning "fourth" that originates in PIE *kʷetwórtós |
| Latvian | In Latvian, the word "ceturtais" also refers to an ancient Latvian lunar deity. |
| Lithuanian | The word "ketvirta" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*kʷetwer-", meaning "four". It is cognate with the Latin word "quattuor" and the Greek word "τέσσερα" (téssera). |
| Luxembourgish | The term also means "40" in Luxembourgish, referencing when a person turns forty. |
| Macedonian | "Четврто" is also a synonym of "fourthly" and "fourth part of something." |
| Malagasy | "Fahafatra" comes from the verb "afafy," which means "to divide, split, separate." |
| Malay | The Malay word "keempat" also means "a fourth part or share". |
| Maltese | The word "ir-raba'" in Maltese also means "quarter" in a time context, e.g. "ir-raba' ta' filgħodu" (quarter past eight). |
| Maori | The name for 'four' or 'fourth' in Maori, 'tuawha', may also mean 'to cut' or 'to divide'. |
| Marathi | चौथा, fourth, is derived from the Sanskrit word 'चतुर' (chatur), meaning 'four' or 'quadruple'. |
| Mongolian | дөрөв дэх (fourth) comes from the Mongolic root for 'left side', referring to the fourth day of a multi-day festival that took place on the left (eastern) side of the camp. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word စတုတ်ထ (fourth) can also be used to refer to the number four in general. |
| Nepali | चौथो' (fourth) is derived from 'चतुर' (four) and can also mean 'a quarter' or 'a fourth part' |
| Norwegian | "Fjerde" also means "bay" or "estuary" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word 'wachinayi' can also refer to the fourth day of the week, Thursday. |
| Pashto | The word "څلورم" in Pashto can also be used to refer to the fourth day of the week, Wednesday. |
| Persian | چهارم may also refer to a person who is the fourth child in a family or may refer to the fourth watch of the night |
| Polish | The word "czwarty" in Polish comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*čьtvьrtъ", which also means "quarter". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "quarto" can also mean "bedroom" or a "room". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਚੌਥਾ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "चतुर्थः" (caturthaḥ), meaning "fourth". It can also refer to the fourth day of the lunar month, or to the fourth part of something. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the ordinal number "al patrulea" can also refer to the fourth day of the week, Wednesday. |
| Russian | "Четвертый" is derived from the Proto-Slavic "*ketvérъ", meaning "group of four". |
| Samoan | The word "tulaga fa" in Samoan can also mean "quarter" or "a quarter of something" |
| Scots Gaelic | 'an ceathramh' is also used for the note 'treble' in music, and 'the fourth' in card games. |
| Serbian | The word "четврти" also means "quarter" or "fourth part" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | Ea bone also means 'side' in Sesotho, and can be used as an alternative for the word 'fahle' which means 'towards' or 'on the side'. |
| Shona | The word "chechina" can also mean "the fourth time" or "during the fourth year" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "چوٿون" also means "a quarter" or "one-fourth" of something. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word හතරවන (hatharavana) is related to the Sanskrit word 'chatvarah', meaning 'four'. |
| Slovak | The word "štvrtý" (fourth) is derived from the Proto-Slavic "*čьtъvьrtъ", meaning "one quarter of a whole", which also survives in the word "štvrť" (quarter). |
| Slovenian | "Četrt" derives from the Proto-Slavic "*četyre" meaning "four" and is also used to denote neighborhoods/districts/quarters in Ljubljana and other cities. |
| Somali | The Somali word 'afraad' also means 'individuals' or 'members', derived from the Arabic word 'afrad'. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "cuarto" can mean both "fourth" and "room", and originates from the Latin "quartus" (fourth). |
| Sundanese | This word is cognate with the Malay, Indonesian, and Javanese terms for "four". |
| Swahili | The word "nne" in Swahili also means "sister" or "cousin". |
| Swedish | The word "fjärde" in Swedish, originally meaning "the distance between two hills", has also come to mean "quarter" and "one-fourth". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "pang-apat" can also refer to a fourth child in a family or a fourth part of something. |
| Tajik | The word "чорум" can also refer to a quadrant of a circle. |
| Tamil | The word 'நான்காவது' (fourth) in Tamil is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root *nal-, meaning 'four'. |
| Telugu | The word "నాల్గవది" (fourth) is derived from the Proto-Dravidian word *nāl, meaning "four". |
| Thai | The word “ประการที่สี่” is also the title of the fourth chapter of the Thai national anthem. |
| Turkish | Dördüncü also means "a fourth part" in Turkish, similar to its Arabic origin "rubu'". |
| Ukrainian | The word "четвертий" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *četvrъtъ, which also means "one quarter". |
| Urdu | The word "چوتھا" can also refer to a quarter or a share of something. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "toʻrtinchi" is derived from Persian and means "fourth" and also "one fourth, a quarter". |
| Vietnamese | "Thứ tư" can also refer to Wednesday in Vietnamese because it is the fourth day of the week. |
| Welsh | The word "pedwerydd" is derived from the Proto-Celtic word "kʷetwarjos", which also means "four" in Breton and Irish. |
| Xhosa | The word 'Isine' can also be used to refer to the number of days in a week, month, or year. |
| Yiddish | Although the word פערטער means 'fourth' in Yiddish, it is related to the English word 'fart' and shares some of the same connotations. |
| Yoruba | Ẹkẹrin is also commonly used as a placeholder to refer to a specific day during the week, usually a week from the day of the conversation. |
| Zulu | In Zulu, the word "okwesine" also means "right hand" or "dexterity". |
| English | The word "fourth" originally meant "front" or "forward" in Old English, and is related to the words "fore" and "front" in Modern English. |