Where Is The Toilet? Translations

In French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Chinese

© David Whitley

Oct 9, 2007

There are few more useful stock phrases, so… Où sont les toilettes? Dónde están los aseos? Dov'è il bagno? and Ain al-?ammaam?


Stock phrases and keywords in foreign languages

If travelling to a country where the locals speak a language other than English, I always try and learn a few stock phrases and keywords (such as ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘do you speak English?’, ‘please’ and ‘thank you’). I also find the phrase ‘I am looking for’ (‘je cherche’ in French for example) very useful – it doubles for ‘I would like’, ‘where is?’, ‘can I have?’ etc.

Where is the toilet in French, Italian, Spanish and more

However, when you really need to go, there is one other phrases that becomes absolutely vital: “Where is the toilet?” Here are a few translations in major languages… Where a non-Latin script is used, I’ve given the rough pronunciation.

French: Où sont les toilettes?

Italian: Dov'è il bagno?

Spanish: Dónde están los aseos?

German: Wo ist die Toilette?

Russian: Gde tualet

Portuguese: Onde são as casas de banho?

Arabic: Ain al-?ammaam?

Japanese: Toire wa doko desu ka

Mandarin Chinese: Cèsuo zài nali?

Dutch: Waar is het toilet?


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