How to say “precisely” in 33 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 Swedish, where precis is the 175th most used word.
Precisely in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans juis/jœi̯s/ exactly, precisely #540
- Albanian pikërisht/pikəɾiʃt/ precisely, exactly #488
- Arabic بالضبط/bi‿dˤ.dˤab.tˤi/ exactly, precisely #189
- Armenian հենց/hent͡sʰ/ right, very, precisely, exactly #99
- Basque zehatz/s̻eat͡s̻/ exactly, precisely #754
- Bosnian upravo/upraʋo/ exactly, precisely #196
- Bulgarian точно[ˈtɔt͡ʃno] exactly, precisely, accurately #102
- Catalan precisament[pɾəˌsi.zəˈmen] #2,495
- Chinese 正是/ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂɻ̩⁵¹/ to be precisely; to just happen to be; to be… #296
- Croatian upravo/upraʋo/ exactly, precisely #190
- Danish præcis/prɛˈsiːˀs/ precisely, specifically #520
- Dutch precies/prəˈsis/ exactly, precisely #319
- English exactly/ɪɡˈzæk(t).li/ Without approximation; precisely #377
- Esperanto precize/preˈt͡size/ #811
- Estonian just/just/ exactly, precisely, just #100
- Finnish tarkkaan/ˈtɑrkːɑːn/ #2,130
- French juste/ʒyst/ exactly, precisely #95
- Georgian ზუსტად[zustʼätʰ] #272
- Greek ακριβώς/a.kɾiˈvos/ exactly, precisely #173
- Hebrew בדיוק/be.diˈjuk/ exactly, precisely #107
- Hungarian pont[ˈpont] exactly, just, precisely #289
- Icelandic einmitt[ˈeinmɪht] exactly, precisely #180
- Italian esattamente/e.zat.taˈmen.te/ exactly, precisely, just #551
- Lithuanian būtent[¹ˈbuːtʲɛnt] exactly, precisely #283
- Macedonian баш[baʃ] exactly, precisely #179
- Malay jangka/ˈd͡ʒaŋkə/ to measure something precisely #1,264
- Romanian exact/eɡˈzakt/ exactly, precisely #263
- Russian точно[ˈtot͡ɕnə] exactly, precisely, accurately #178
- Serbian upravo/upraʋo/ exactly, precisely #207
- Swedish precis/prɛˈsiːs/ precisely; exactly #175
- Turkish tıpkı/ˈtɯp.kɯ/ exactly, precisely #606
- Ukrainian точно[ˈtɔt͡ʃnɔ] exactly, precisely, accurately #146
- Vietnamese chính[t͡ɕïŋ˧˦] exactly; precisely #163
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) 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.