How to say “completely” in 47 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- completamente/komˌpletaˈmente/ Spanish
- полностью[ˈpoɫnəsʲtʲjʊ] Russian
- تماما/ta.maː.man/ Arabic
- 完全/wän³⁵ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/ Chinese
- სულ[sul] Georgian
- সম্পূর্ণ/ʃɔmpuɾno/ Bengali
“completely” in Spanish: completamente · French: complètement · German: völlig · Portuguese: completamente · Chinese: 完全 · Russian: полностью · Arabic: تماما · Turkish: tamamen
It is commonest in Chinese, where 完全 is the 86th most used word.
Completely in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian fare/ˈfaɾɛ/ totally, wholly, completely #212
- Arabic تماما/ta.maː.man/ #253
- Armenian լիովին/lioˈvin/ fully, entirely, completely, perfectly #515
- Basque osoki/os̺oki/ #1,730
- Bengali সম্পূর্ণ/ʃɔmpuɾno/ completely, entirely, wholly, totally #486
- Bosnian potpuno/pǒtpuno/ completely, entirely, wholly #433
- Bulgarian напълно[nɐˈpɤɫno] fully, completely #363
- Catalan completament[kumˌplɛ.təˈmen] #872
- Chinese 完全/wän³⁵ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/ completely; absolutely; entirely #86
- Croatian potpuno/pǒtpuno/ completely, entirely, wholly #447
- Czech úplně[ˈuːpl̩ɲɛ] completely, wholly #326
- Danish helt/hɛlˀt/ completely, altogether, quite, fully,… #137
- Dutch helemaal/ˈɦeː.ləˌmaːl/ #235
- English the/ði/ because it has already been mentioned, is to… #3
- Estonian täiesti/ˈtæi̯e̯sti/ #372
- Finnish täysin/ˈtæy̯sin/ totally, fully, completely #398
- French complètement/kɔ̃.plɛt.mɑ̃/ #767
- Galician medio/ˈmedjo/ partly, somewhat, not completely #375
- Georgian სულ[sul] completely, entirely, all, the whole of #101
- German völlig/ˈfœlɪç/ #686
- Greek εντελώς/ˌedeˈlos/ intensifier: all, completely, totally #665
- Hebrew לגמרי/leˈɡam.re/ totally, completely, entirely #283
- Hungarian egész[ˈɛɡeːs] entirely, completely #96
- Icelandic alveg/ˈalvɛɣ/ entirely, completely #148
- Italian assolutamente/as.so.lu.taˈmen.te/ absolutely, completely, totally, dead #679
- Korean 다[ta̠(ː)] all, completely #17
- Latvian pilnīgi/ˈpillniːɡi/ complete, full, completely, fully; adverbial… #373
- Lithuanian visai/ˈvʲɪ.s̪ɐɪ/ completely, entirely #145
- Macedonian сосема[ˈsɔsɛma] completely, altogether #573
- Malay habis/ˈhabis/ completely; utterly; entirely #612
- Norwegian helt/ˈheːlt/ completely, altogether, quite, fully,… #135
- Persian حسابی[he.sɒː.bíː] totally, completely, really; an emphatic… #1,350
- Polish zupełnie/zuˈpɛw.ɲɛ/ completely, absolutely, entirely, totally #754
- Portuguese completamente/kõˌplɛ.taˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/ completely; fully; totally #737
- Romanian perfect[perˈfekt] perfectly, completely #531
- Russian полностью[ˈpoɫnəsʲtʲjʊ] completely, entirely, utterly, fully #775
- Serbian potpuno/pǒtpuno/ completely, entirely, wholly #412
- Slovenian popolnoma/pɔpɔ́ːʋnɔma/ completely, fully, entirely #263
- Spanish completamente/komˌpletaˈmente/ #818
- Swedish fullständigt/ˈfɵlstɛnˌdɪkt/ #2,439
- Tagalog lubos/luˈbos/ completely; fully; absolutely #1,171
- Tamil முழுவதும்/mʊɻʊʋɐd̪ʊm/ wholly, totally, completely #204
- Telugu పూర్తిగా/ˈpuːrtiɡaː/ fully, completely #233
- Turkish tamamen/tɑ.mɑːˈmæn/ completely, fully #319
- Ukrainian цілком[t͡sʲiɫˈkɔm] entirely, completely, wholly #940
- Urdu سراسر/sə.ɾɑː.səɾ/ totally, completely, entirely,… #1,641
- Vietnamese tiệt[tiət̚˧˨ʔ] completely; totally; entirely #502
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.