How To Say “I’m hungry” In Different Languages

I am writing this in the northern hemisphere just ten days before the first day of autumn. Autumn is the season that I look forward to the most for several reasons. Here are some of the reasons I can think of right now in no particular order: the cool weather, pumpkin spice everything, the changing colors of leaves, Halloween and Halloween candies, cozy cable knit sweaters, soup, and chocolate babka.

Mmmmm. Ignoring the other many words I wrote, reading and seeing the words “soup” and “chocolate babka” make me hungry. I love a good and hearty soup. I also love a sweet and buttery and chocolatey chocolate babka. Preferably not eating them at the same time, no. But the thought of those two words really makes me hungry. And if those words make you hungry or not hungry or something else, learn how to say “I’m hungry” in many different ways!

PS - the first day of fall in the northern hemisphere is September 22 or September 23, and the first day of fall in the southern hemisphere is March 19 or March 20.

• English: I am hungry (ay am hung-gree)
• Turkish: acıktım (ah-juk-tuhm)
• Italian: ho fame (ho fam-meh)
• French: j’ai faim (jay fam)
• German: ich habe hunger (ihk hah-beh hoong-ger)
• Dutch: ik heb honger (ik heb hong-ger)
• Mandarin Chinese: 我饿了 (wǒ è le)
• Japanese: お腹が空きました (o-naka ga akimashita)
• Indonesian: saya lapar (sa-yah lah-par)
• Spanish: tengo hambre (teng-go ham-breh)
• Ukrainian: Я голодний (ya hoh-lohd-nee)
• Brazilian Portuguese: estou com fome (es-toh kohm foh-mee)
• European Portuguese: estou com fome (es-toh kohm foh-mee)
• Filipino: ako ay nagugutom (ah-ko ay na-gu-gu-tom), nagugutom na ako (na-gu-gu-tom ah-ko)
• Hindi: मुझे भूख लगी है (mujhe bhūkh lagī hai)
• Polish: jestem głodny (yes-tem gwod-nih) *masculine, jestem głodna (yes-tem gwod-nah) *feminine
• Swedish: jag är hungrig (yahg air hoong-reeg)
• Norwegian: jeg er sulten (yay air sool-ten)
• Finnish: olen nälkäinen (oh-len nal-kai-nen)
• Russian: я хочу есть (ya kho-chu yest)
• Romanian: mea foame (mee-eh foh-ah-meh)
• Swahili: nina njaa (nee-nah n-jah)
• Greek: πεινάω (peináo)
• Esperanto: mi malsatas (mee mal-sah-tas)
• Vietnamese: tôi đói (toy doy)