Respond in Different Languages
Discover 'Respond' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Respond
Afrikaans reageer | ||
Albanian pergjigje | ||
Amharic መልስ ስጥ | ||
Arabic رد | ||
Armenian պատասխանել | ||
Assamese সঁহাৰি | ||
Aymara jaysaña | ||
Azerbaijani cavab ver | ||
Bambara ka jaabi | ||
Basque erantzun | ||
Belarusian адгукнуцца | ||
Bengali সাড়া | ||
Bhojpuri जवाब दऽ | ||
Bosnian odgovoriti | ||
Bulgarian отговори | ||
Catalan respondre | ||
Cebuano motubag | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 响应 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 響應 | ||
Corsican risponde | ||
Croatian odgovoriti | ||
Czech reagovat | ||
Danish svare | ||
Dhivehi އިޖާބަދިނުން | ||
Dogri परता | ||
Dutch reageren | ||
English respond | ||
Esperanto respondi | ||
Estonian vastata | ||
Ewe ɖo eŋu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) tumugon | ||
Finnish vastata | ||
French répondre | ||
Frisian beäntwurdzje | ||
Galician responder | ||
Georgian უპასუხოს | ||
German reagieren | ||
Greek απαντώ | ||
Guarani mbohovái | ||
Gujarati જવાબ | ||
Haitian Creole reponn | ||
Hausa amsa | ||
Hawaiian pane | ||
Hebrew לְהָגִיב | ||
Hindi जवाब | ||
Hmong teb | ||
Hungarian reagál | ||
Icelandic svara | ||
Igbo zaghachi | ||
Ilocano sumungbat | ||
Indonesian menanggapi | ||
Irish freagra a thabhairt | ||
Italian rispondere | ||
Japanese 応答する | ||
Javanese nanggapi | ||
Kannada ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh жауап беру | ||
Khmer ឆ្លើយតប | ||
Kinyarwanda subiza | ||
Konkani प्रतिसाद | ||
Korean 응창 성가 | ||
Krio ansa | ||
Kurdish bersivdan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) وەڵامدانەوە | ||
Kyrgyz жооп берүү | ||
Lao ຕອບສະຫນອງ | ||
Latin respondent tibi | ||
Latvian atbildēt | ||
Lingala kopesa eyano | ||
Lithuanian atsakyti | ||
Luganda okuddamu | ||
Luxembourgish reagéieren | ||
Macedonian одговори | ||
Maithili प्रतिक्रिया | ||
Malagasy asehonao | ||
Malay membalas | ||
Malayalam പ്രതികരിക്കുക | ||
Maltese twieġeb | ||
Maori whakautu | ||
Marathi प्रतिसाद | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯨꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo chhanglet | ||
Mongolian хариу өгөх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တုံ့ပြန်ပါ | ||
Nepali प्रतिक्रिया दिनुहोस् | ||
Norwegian svar | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) yankhani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଉତ୍ତର ଦିଅ | ||
Oromo deebii kennuu | ||
Pashto ځواب | ||
Persian پاسخ دادن | ||
Polish odpowiadać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) responder | ||
Punjabi ਜਵਾਬ | ||
Quechua kutichiy | ||
Romanian răspunde | ||
Russian реагировать | ||
Samoan tali atu | ||
Sanskrit परतिक्रिया | ||
Scots Gaelic freagairt | ||
Sepedi fetola | ||
Serbian одговорити | ||
Sesotho arabela | ||
Shona pindura | ||
Sindhi جواب ڏيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ප්රතිචාර දක්වන්න | ||
Slovak odpovedať | ||
Slovenian odgovorite | ||
Somali ka jawaab | ||
Spanish responder | ||
Sundanese ngaréspon | ||
Swahili jibu | ||
Swedish svara | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) tumugon | ||
Tajik ҷавоб додан | ||
Tamil பதிலளிக்கவும் | ||
Tatar җавап бир | ||
Telugu ప్రతిస్పందించండి | ||
Thai ตอบสนอง | ||
Tigrinya መልሲ | ||
Tsonga hlamula | ||
Turkish cevap vermek | ||
Turkmen jogap ber | ||
Twi (Akan) yi ano | ||
Ukrainian відповісти | ||
Urdu جواب | ||
Uyghur جاۋاب | ||
Uzbek javob bering | ||
Vietnamese trả lời | ||
Welsh ymateb | ||
Xhosa phendula | ||
Yiddish ענטפערן | ||
Yoruba fesi | ||
Zulu phendula |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The verb "reageer" ultimately derives from the Latin word "reagere", meaning "to act back". |
| Albanian | The word "pergjigje" in Albanian comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "*gweg-" meaning "to speak, to say". |
| Amharic | The Amharic verb መልስ ስጥ (respond) can also mean "to answer" or "to tell someone to do something." |
| Arabic | The word "رد" in Arabic can also mean "to inherit", "to follow" or "to repel" |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "cavab ver" is also used in Turkish, with the same meaning. |
| Basque | Originating from Latin "responsum" meaning "answer," "erantzun" later came to also mean "reply" and "response" in the Basque language. |
| Belarusian | "Адгукнуцца" is derived from the Proto-Slavic "*ogdъknǫti", meaning "to resonate, to echo". |
| Bengali | In Old Bengali, the word "সাড়া" could also mean "to wake up". |
| Bosnian | The word 'odgovoriti' is derived from the Old Slavic word 'otgovoryti', which means 'to untie, to solve'. |
| Bulgarian | The verb "отговори" has a second, less-known meaning, which is "to talk someone out of something". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "respondre" also means "to answer" a question or request. |
| Cebuano | The word "motubag" may be derived from the Cebuano word "tubag," which means "answer." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 响应 (respond) is also used to refer to the response of a computer program to a user request. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 響應 is derived from 響 (sound) and 應 (answer), meaning to answer with a sound or action. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word "risponde" also means "to resonate" or "to reverberate". |
| Croatian | The verb "odgovoriti" also means "to answer" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The verb "reagovat" comes from the French word "réagir", which means "to react". |
| Danish | The word "svare" can also mean "to swear" or "to curse" in Danish. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word 'reageren' is related to the French 'réagir', which means to react. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "respondi" is derived from French "répondre" and also means "answer". |
| Estonian | The word "vastata" is derived from the Proto-Finnic word "* vasta-*, which also means "to meet" or "to counteract". |
| Finnish | The word "vastata" in Finnish is derived from the Proto-Uralic root * vasta-, meaning "to meet, to answer." |
| French | The French verb répondre also carries a sense of meeting a requirement or an expectation. |
| Frisian | The word "beäntwurdzje" in Frisian originates from the Old Frisian word "antwurdia", meaning "to answer" or "to give a reply". |
| Galician | In Galician, "responder" can also mean "to be responsible for" or "to take care of". |
| German | "Reagieren" also means to react to something or to take action in response to something. |
| Greek | The word "απαντώ" can also mean "meet" or "occur" |
| Gujarati | The word 'જવાબ' in Gujarati can also mean 'reply', 'answer', 'response', or 'reaction'. |
| Haitian Creole | "Reponn" comes from the French reflexive verb "se répondre" meaning "to answer oneself". |
| Hausa | "Amsa" also means "answer" and "reply" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | Pane can also mean 'to be quiet' or 'to make a quiet sound'. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "לְהָגִיב" can also mean "to react" or "to give feedback". |
| Hindi | "जवाब" is derived from the Persian word "jawāb", which means both "answer" and "question." |
| Hmong | Hmong language has two separate words 'teb' ('respond') and 'teb' ('ask') which only differ in the pitch of the 2nd tone. |
| Hungarian | The word "reagál" can also mean "react" but is usually used only in chemical contexts, like "a sav reagál a lúggal" (the acid reacts with the base). |
| Icelandic | The word "svara" comes from the Old Norse word "svara", which means "to answer" or "to respond". |
| Igbo | "Zaghachi" also means "to give account" or "to confess" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | Menanggapi is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *tumpu/*tumpuq, meaning "gather" or "meet". |
| Irish | The Irish word freagra a thabhairt is a verbal noun derived from the verb freagair (respond), which originated in the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰreg- (to break, shatter, roar) |
| Italian | "Rispondere" is a verb in Latin, composed by "re-," denoting repetition or reaction, and "spondere," meaning "promise." |
| Japanese | 応答する derives from Chinese 應答 and means 'answer' as well as 'respond'. |
| Javanese | "Nanggapi" is derived from the Javanese word "tangi", meaning "to stand up", and the suffix "-i", indicating a reciprocal action. |
| Kazakh | The word "жауап беру" can also mean "to answer" or "to reply" in Kazakh. |
| Korean | 응창 성가 originated in the Latin word "respondere" meaning "to promise". |
| Kurdish | The word "bersivdan" may also refer to "a retort". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жооп берүү" can also mean "to give an answer" or "to speak out" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | Respondent tibi can also mean to answer a question, to be responsible for something, or to be a defendant in a legal case. |
| Latvian | The word “atbildēt” derives from the Proto-Indo-European root “wet-” meaning “to speak” and is cognate with the English word “answer”. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "atsakyti" also means "to refuse" or "to deny" something. |
| Luxembourgish | Reagéieren is also used in Luxembourgish to mean to react, to respond or to interact. |
| Macedonian | "Одговори" (respond) shares the root "говор" with other words related to speech and language, including "зборува" (speak) and "говорник" (speaker). |
| Malagasy | "Asehonao" derives from the root word "seho" (to be attentive, to wait) and the prefix "a" (to perform an action). |
| Malay | The Malay word "membalas" can also mean "to retaliate", "to revenge", or "to reciprocate". |
| Malayalam | From Sanskrit **प्रतिक्ष** (pratīkṣa) 'wait' or **प्रतिकार** (pratikāra) 'compensation'. Also means 'to reply' and 'to react'. |
| Maltese | The word "twieġeb" in Maltese derives from the Arabic "t-w-b" meaning "to repent". |
| Maori | The word "whakautu" can also refer to the return of a gift or greeting, or the action of reciprocating. |
| Marathi | The word "प्रतिसाद" also means "promise" or "vow" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The word "хариу өгөх" also means "to pay back a debt" or "to compensate" |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "respond" comes from the Latin "respondere", meaning "to answer." |
| Nepali | The word "प्रतिक्रिया दिनुहोस्" comes from the Sanskrit root "kri" meaning "to do" and the suffix "-ya" meaning "to be done". It can also mean "to react" or "to give a response". |
| Norwegian | The word "svar" in Norwegian is derived from the Old Norse word "svara", which means "to answer" or "to speak out". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "yankhani" can also mean "answer" or "reply". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word ځواب is derived from the Persian word جواب, meaning 'answer', and is commonly used to mean 'response' or 'answer' in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "پاسخ دادن" is derived from Old Persian "padi" meaning "protect" and is also used to refer to "answering a question or request" |
| Polish | 'Odpowiedzi' (response in English) comes from 'powiedzenie', to say. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "responder" originally meant to answer, but now also means to guarantee |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਜਵਾਬ" can also translate to "answering" in English. |
| Romanian | The word "răspunde" also means "to guarantee" or "to bail out" in Romanian. |
| Russian | The word "реагировать" has Latin roots and entered the Russian language from French in the 19th century. |
| Samoan | The word 'tali atu' in Samoan can also refer to an exchange of responses, such as in a conversation. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "freagairt" derives from the Old Irish "freagra" meaning "answer," and is cognate with the Welsh word "ateb." |
| Serbian | In Serbian, "odgovoriti" shares its root with "govor" (speak) and literally means to "speak back". |
| Sesotho | The word "arabela" also means "to answer" or "to reply" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | In addition to meaning "to answer," pindura can also mean "to respond" and "to obey." |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "جواب ڏيو" can also mean "to answer" or "to reply". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "odpovedať" can also mean "to answer," "to reply," or "to correspond." |
| Slovenian | The word "odgovorite" is derived from the verb "odgovarjati", meaning "to answer", and it literally means "to give an answer". |
| Somali | "Ka jawaab" originates from the Arabic word "جواب" (jawāb), meaning "reply" or "answer". |
| Spanish | In Spanish, 'responder' also means to be responsible for something, while 'response' translates to 'respuesta'. |
| Sundanese | The root word of ngaréspon is ‘respón’, which can also mean ‘response’ or ‘answer’ in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | Swahili 'jibu', in addition to 'answer', can also be a noun describing the 'reply'. |
| Swedish | Svara derives from the Old Norse 'svar', meaning 'answer, defence', and is cognate with English 'answer'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Tumugon is derived from the root word 'tugon' which means 'answer' or 'response'. |
| Thai | The word "ตอบสนอง" (respond) in Thai can also mean "react," "answer," or "satisfy." |
| Turkish | The Turkish phrase "cevap vermek" can also refer to the action of "paying a debt" and is derived from the Arabic phrase "jawaba al-dayni". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "відповісти" also means "to answer", "to reply", and "to be responsible for something or someone" |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "جواب" is derived from the Arabic word "جَوَاب" which means "answer" or "reply" and is also used to refer to a "solution" or a "hint". |
| Vietnamese | It is the Sino-Vietnamese reading of 答礼 (đáp lễ), where “đáp” means “to answer” and “lễ” can mean either “manners” or “thank”. |
| Welsh | The word 'ymateb' is cognate with the Irish word 'freagairt' and the Latin word 'respondere'. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "phendula" also means "to translate" or "to interpret". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ענטפערן" is derived from the German word "antworten," which means "to answer." |
| Yoruba | The word "fesi" also means "to hear" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "phendula" can also mean "to answer" or "to return a message". |
| English | "Respond" comes from Latin "respondere," meaning "to promise in return," and the Old French "espondre," meaning "to lay out" or "to explain." |