How to say “completely” in 47 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.
It is commonest in English, where the is the 3rd most used word.
- Albanian fare totally, wholly, completely #212
- Arabic تماما #253
- Armenian լիովին fully, entirely, completely, perfectly #515
- Basque osoki #1,730
- Bengali সম্পূর্ণ completely, entirely, wholly, totally #486
- Bosnian potpuno completely, entirely, wholly #433
- Bulgarian напълно fully, completely #363
- Catalan completament #872
- Chinese 完全 completely; absolutely; entirely #86
- Croatian potpuno completely, entirely, wholly #447
- Czech úplně completely, wholly #326
- Danish helt completely, altogether, quite, fully,… #137
- Dutch helemaal #235
- English the because it has already been mentioned, is to… #3
- Estonian täiesti #372
- Finnish täysin totally, fully, completely #398
- French complètement #767
- Galician medio partly, somewhat, not completely #375
- Georgian სულ completely, entirely, all, the whole of #101
- German völlig #686
- Greek εντελώς intensifier: all, completely, totally #665
- Hebrew לגמרי totally, completely, entirely #283
- Hungarian egész entirely, completely #96
- Icelandic alveg entirely, completely #148
- Italian assolutamente absolutely, completely, totally, dead #679
- Korean 다 all, completely #17
- Latvian pilnīgi complete, full, completely, fully; adverbial… #373
- Lithuanian visai completely, entirely #145
- Macedonian сосема completely, altogether #573
- Malay habis completely; utterly; entirely #612
- Norwegian helt completely, altogether, quite, fully,… #135
- Persian حسابی totally, completely, really; an emphatic… #1,350
- Polish zupełnie completely, absolutely, entirely, totally #754
- Portuguese completamente completely; fully; totally #737
- Romanian perfect perfectly, completely #531
- Russian полностью completely, entirely, utterly, fully #775
- Serbian potpuno completely, entirely, wholly #412
- Slovenian popolnoma completely, fully, entirely #263
- Spanish completamente #818
- Swedish fullständigt #2,439
- Tagalog lubos completely; fully; absolutely #1,171
- Tamil முழுவதும் wholly, totally, completely #204
- Telugu పూర్తిగా fully, completely #233
- Turkish tamamen completely, fully #319
- Ukrainian цілком entirely, completely, wholly #940
- Urdu سراسر totally, completely, entirely,… #1,641
- Vietnamese tiệt completely; totally; entirely #502
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.