How to say “correct” in 37 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 Malayalam, where ശരി is the 20th most used word.
- Afrikaans reg right; correct #99
- Armenian ճիշտ right, correct #183
- Basque zuzena right, correct #458
- Catalan correcte #658
- Chinese 沒錯 to be correct; to be without error #564
- Czech správný #1,544
- Danish korrekt #1,345
- Dutch oké okay, correct, acceptable, satisfactory #106
- Esperanto pravas to be right, be correct, have a correct… #386
- Estonian korralik proper, correct #1,325
- Finnish oikeassa right, in the right, correct #263
- Galician certo right, correct #219
- Georgian მართალი true, correct #208
- German stimmt to be right, to be correct, to be proper, to… #276
- Greek δίκιο that which is right, correct, just #288
- Hindi सही right, correct, accurate #118
- Hungarian helyes #518
- Indonesian tepat #256
- Italian esatto exact, correct, right #553
- Korean 맞다 to be correct, right #543
- Latvian pareizi right, correct, rightly, correctly; adverbial… #246
- Lithuanian tikras correct, true #192
- Malayalam ശരി #20
- Norwegian rett to correct #148
- Persian درست correct, right #67
- Portuguese errado not correct; wrong; incorrect #524
- Romanian corect #374
- Russian исправить to correct, to improve, to repair #1,705
- Slovenian i used to denote happiness after correct… #368
- Spanish correcto correct, right #549
- Swedish gäller to be valid; to be correct or proper, to apply #551
- Tagalog tama correct; right #97
- Tamil சரியான proper, correct #132
- Turkish haklı right, correct, just, deserved #612
- Ukrainian виправити to correct #2,184
- Urdu صحیح right, correct, accurate #162
- Vietnamese đúng right, correct, accurate, precise, proper,… #88
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.