How to Say First in Other Languages

Afrikaans: eerste (eer-steh)

Albanian: i parë (ee pah-reh)

Amharic: መጀመሪያ (meh-jeh-meh-ree-ah)

Arabic: أول (aw-wal)

Armenian: առաջին (a-ra-jin)

Azerbaijani: birinci (bee-reen-jee)

Basque: lehen (leh-hen)

Belarusian: першы (pyer-shy)

Bengali: প্রথম (pro-thom)

Bosnian: prvi (pr-vee)

Bulgarian: първи (purr-vee)

Burmese: ပထမ (pa-ta-mah)

Catalan: primer (pree-mehr)

Cebuano: una (oo-nah)

Chinese (Mandarin): 第一 (dee-yee)

Croatian: prvi (pr-vee)

Czech: první (pruhv-nee)

Danish: første (fur-stuh)

Dutch: eerste (eer-steh)

Esperanto: unua (oo-noo-ah)

Estonian: esimene (eh-see-meh-neh)

Finnish: ensimmäinen (en-sim-mine-en)

French: premier (pruh-myair)

Galician: primeiro (pree-meh-roh)

Georgian: პირველი (pir-veli)

German: erste (ehr-steh)

Greek: πρώτος (proh-tos)

Gujarati: પ્રથમ (pruh-thum)

Haitian Creole: premye (preh-myair)

Hausa: farko (far-koh)

Hebrew: ראשון (ree-shon)

Hindi: पहला (peh-hah-lah)

Hungarian: első (el-sho)

Icelandic: fyrsti (fist-tee)

Igbo: mbu (m-boo)

Indonesian: pertama (per-tah-mah)

Irish: chéad (kay-ed)

Italian: primo (pree-moh)

Japanese: 一番 (ee-chee-bahn)

Javanese: pisan (pee-sahn)

Kannada: ಮೊದಲ (mo-dal-uh)

Kazakh: бірінші (beer-in-shee)

Khmer: ដំបូង (dahm-bong)

Korean: 첫 번째 (cheot-beon-jjae)

Kurdish: yekem (yeh-kem)

Kyrgyz: биринчи (beer-in-chee)

Lao: ຄັ້ງທຳອິດ (khang-tham-it)

Latvian: pirmais (peer-mais)

Lithuanian: pirmas (peer-mas)

Luxembourgish: éischt (aysht)

Macedonian: прв (prrv)

Malagasy: voalohany (voo-ah-lo-han-yee)

Malay: pertama (per-tah-mah)

Malayalam: ആദ്യത്തെ (ah-dhya-tte)

Maltese: l-ewwel (ell-wehl)

Maori: tuatahi (too-ah-tah-hee)

Marathi: पहिला (pah-hee-lah)

Mongolian: нэгдүгээр (neg-du-ger)

Nepali: पहिलो (peh-hee-loh)

Norwegian: første (fur-stuh)

Odia: ପ୍ରଥମ (pro-tho-ma)

Pashto: لومړی (loo-mrah)

Persian: اولین (av-va-leen)

Polish: pierwszy (pyehr-shih)

Portuguese: primeiro (pree-may-roh)

Punjabi: ਪਹਿਲਾ (peh-hil-lah)

Romanian: primul (pree-mool)

Russian: первый (pyer-viy)

Samoan: muamua (moo-ah-moo-ah)

Serbian: први (prr-vee)

Shona: wokutanga (woh-koo-tan-gah)

Sinhala: පළමු (pa-la-mu)

Slovak: prvý (prr-vee)

Slovenian: prvi (prr-vee)

Somali: ugu horreyn (oo-go ho-rein)

Spanish: primero (pree-may-roh)

Sundanese: kahiji (ka-hee-jee)

Swahili: kwanza (kwan-za)

Swedish: första (fur-stuh)

Tagalog: una (oo-nah)

Tajik: аввал (av-val)

Tamil: முதல் (muh-thal)

Telugu: మొదటి (mo-da-tee)

Thai: แรก (rak)

Tigrinya: ቀዳማይ (keh-dah-my)

Turkish: birinci (bee-reen-jee)

Turkmen: birinji (bee-reen-jee)

Ukrainian: перший (per-shiy)

Urdu: پہلا (peh-la)

Uzbek: birinchi (bee-reen-chee)

Vietnamese: đầu tiên (doh tee-en)

Welsh: cyntaf (kun-taf)

Wolof: bu njëkk (boo nyekk)

Xhosa: kuqala (koo-qa-lah)

Yiddish: ערשט (ersht)

Yoruba: akọkọ (ah-ka-ko)

Zulu: okokuqala (oh-koh-qa-lan-ga)

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