How to say “entirely” in 35 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.
It is commonest in Hungarian, where egész is the 96th most used word.
Entirely in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian plotësisht/plotəˈsiʃt/ fully, completely, entirely, totally,… #754
- Arabic كافة/kaːf.fa.tan/ all of, altogether, entirely #1,899
- Armenian լիովին/lioˈvin/ fully, entirely, completely, perfectly #515
- Bengali একদম/ækd̪ɔm/ at all, entirely, thoroughly #196
- Bosnian potpuno/pǒtpuno/ completely, entirely, wholly #433
- Bulgarian съвсем[sɐfˈsɛm] completely, entirely, absolutely, totally #460
- Chinese 完全/wän³⁵ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/ completely; absolutely; entirely #86
- Croatian potpuno/pǒtpuno/ completely, entirely, wholly #447
- Czech naprosto[ˈnaprosto] absolutely, totally, entirely, completely #665
- Dutch geheel/ɣəˈheːl/ #2,258
- English whole/hoʊl/ In entirety; entirely; wholly #302
- Esperanto tute/ˈtute/ entirely; wholly; utterly; completely; totally #134
- Finnish kokonaan/ˈkokonɑːn/ entirely, fully, totally #1,913
- Georgian სულ[sul] completely, entirely, all, the whole of #101
- Hebrew לגמרי/leˈɡam.re/ totally, completely, entirely #283
- Hungarian egész[ˈɛɡeːs] entirely, completely #96
- Icelandic alveg/ˈalvɛɣ/ entirely, completely #148
- Indonesian semuanya/səmuˈaɲa/ altogether, entirely #122
- Korean 아예[a̠je̞] Altogether; entirely #771
- Lithuanian visai/ˈvʲɪ.s̪ɐɪ/ completely, entirely #145
- Macedonian целосно[ˈt͡sɛɫɔsnɔ] wholly, fully, entirely, integrally #562
- Malay habis/ˈhabis/ completely; utterly; entirely #612
- Norwegian kul/kʉːl/ used as an intensifier: completely, entirely,… #1,628
- Persian سراسر[sæ.ɹɒː.sǽɹ] from end to end; throughout; entirely #1,647
- Polish zupełnie/zuˈpɛw.ɲɛ/ completely, absolutely, entirely, totally #754
- Portuguese absolutamente/ab.soˌlu.taˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/ absolutely; completely; entirely; totally;… #1,701
- Russian совсем[sɐfˈsʲem] quite, entirely, totally #254
- Serbian potpuno/pǒtpuno/ completely, entirely, wholly #412
- Slovenian popolnoma/pɔpɔ́ːʋnɔma/ completely, fully, entirely #263
- Spanish absolutamente/absoˌlutaˈmente/ absolutely; completely; entirely; totally;… #1,342
- Swedish helt/heːlt/ entirely, absolutely, wholly, completely #192
- Tamil முழுக்க/mʊɻʊkːɐ/ fully, completely, entirely #1,205
- Ukrainian зовсім[ˈzɔu̯sʲim] quite, entirely, totally #300
- 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), 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.