How to say “correct” in 37 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.
- correcto/koˈreɡto/ Spanish
- исправить[ɪˈspravʲɪtʲ] Russian
- δίκιο/ˈðico/ Greek
- ശരി/ʃɐɾi/ Malayalam
- درست[d̪o.ɹost̪ʰ] Persian
“correct” in Spanish: correcto · Russian: исправить · Greek: δίκιο
It is commonest in Malayalam, where ശരി is the 20th most used word.
Correct in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans reg/rɛχ ~ ræχ/ right; correct #99
- Armenian ճիշտ/t͡ʃiʃt/ right, correct #183
- Basque zuzena/s̻us̻ena/ right, correct #458
- Catalan correcte[kuˈrɛk.tə] #658
- Chinese 沒錯/meɪ̯³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/ to be correct; to be without error #564
- Czech správný[ˈspraːvniː] #1,544
- Danish korrekt/kɒˈʁɛɡd/ #1,345
- Dutch oké/oːˈkeː/ okay, correct, acceptable, satisfactory #106
- Esperanto pravas/ˈpravas/ to be right, be correct, have a correct… #386
- Estonian korralik/ˈkorːɑlik/ proper, correct #1,325
- Finnish oikeassa/ˈoi̯keɑsːɑ/ right, in the right, correct #263
- Galician certo/ˈθɛɾto/ right, correct #219
- Georgian მართალი[mäɾtʰäli] true, correct #208
- German stimmt/ˈʃtɪmt/ to be right, to be correct, to be proper, to… #276
- Greek δίκιο/ˈðico/ that which is right, correct, just #288
- Hindi सही/sə.ɦiː/ right, correct, accurate #118
- Hungarian helyes[ˈhɛjɛʃ] #518
- Indonesian tepat/tə.pat/ #256
- Italian esatto/eˈzat.to/ exact, correct, right #553
- Korean 맞다[ma̠t̚t͈a̠] to be correct, right #543
- Latvian pareizi/ˈpareizi/ right, correct, rightly, correctly; adverbial… #246
- Lithuanian tikras/ˈtɪkrɐs/ correct, true #192
- Malayalam ശരി/ʃɐɾi/ #20
- Norwegian rett/ɾɛtː/ to correct #148
- Persian درست[d̪o.ɹost̪ʰ] correct, right #67
- Portuguese errado/eˈʁa.du/ not correct; wrong; incorrect #524
- Romanian corect/koˈrekt/ #374
- Russian исправить[ɪˈspravʲɪtʲ] to correct, to improve, to repair #1,705
- Slovenian i/ˈíː/ used to denote happiness after correct… #368
- Spanish correcto/koˈreɡto/ correct, right #549
- Swedish gäller/ˈjɛlɛr/ to be valid; to be correct or proper, to apply #551
- Tagalog tama/ˈtamaʔ/ correct; right #97
- Tamil சரியான/tʃɐɾɪjɑːnɐ/ proper, correct #132
- Turkish haklı/hakˈlɯ/ right, correct, just, deserved #612
- Ukrainian виправити[ˈʋɪprɐʋete] to correct #2,184
- Urdu صحیح/sə.ɦiː(ɦ)/ right, correct, accurate #162
- Vietnamese đúng[ʔɗʊwŋ͡m˧˦] right, correct, accurate, precise, proper,… #88
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 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.