| Part of speech | common noun |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /tɔŋ/ |
| Hyphenation | tong |
| Gender | historically feminine, nowadays also masculine |
| Plural | tongen |
| Diminutive | |
|---|---|
| Singular | Plural |
| tongetje | tongetjes |
| Catalan | llenguado |
|---|---|
| Danish | tunge; søtunge |
| English | common sole; Dover sole; black sole |
| Esperanto | ordinara soleo |
| Faeroese | leistur |
| French | sole |
| German | Seezunge |
| Italian | sogliola; sogliola comune |
| Norwegian | tunge; tungeflyndre; sjøtunge; skosåle |
| Papiamento | linguado comum |
| Portuguese | linguado |
| Saterland Frisian | Seetunge |
| Spanish | lenguado |
| Swedish | sjötunga; tunga; vanligen tunga; äkta tunga |
| Welsh | lleden chwithig |
| West Frisian | tong |