How to say “right” in 53 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 Hebrew, where בסדר is the 17th most used word.
- Afrikaans reg right; correct #99
- Albanian djathtë #879
- Arabic حال during, right after, immediately upon #123
- Armenian բարի all right!, very well!, agreed!, OK #55
- Basque zuzena right, correct #458
- Bengali ঠিক right, exactly, just #19
- Bosnian odmah right now, immediately #188
- Bulgarian веднага immediately; right away #213
- Catalan dret right; opposite of left #618
- Chinese 可不 you're absolutely right!; right!; exactly!;… #384
- Croatian odmah right now, immediately #194
- Czech hned immediately, right away #199
- Danish rigtig #302
- Dutch juiste right, correct #695
- English right On the right side #49
- Esperanto ĝuste just; right #196
- Estonian kohe at once, immediately, right away #122
- Finnish juuri right, just, exactly, precisely #107
- French droite #949
- Galician certo right, correct #219
- Georgian ახლავე right away, right now, now, this instant #400
- German stimmt to be right, to be correct, to be proper, to… #276
- Greek εντάξει OK, all right, in order #48
- Hebrew בסדר all right, okay, O.K #17
- Hindi अभी right now #104
- Hungarian rendben all right, okay #48
- Icelandic strax immediately, right away #175
- Indonesian baiklah all right; alright #93
- Italian esatto exact, correct, right #553
- Korean 당장 At once; immediately thereafter; right now #143
- Latvian pareizi right, correct, rightly, correctly; adverbial… #246
- Lithuanian tiesiog straight, right #79
- Macedonian нели right, don't you think #108
- Malay baiklah all right #87
- Malayalam ഇടത് left; opposite of right #1,370
- Norwegian akkurat right, exactly #180
- Persian درست correct, right #67
- Polish prawo to the right #528
- Portuguese agora now; right now #57
- Romanian acum now; right now; at present #41
- Russian хорошо well, right #41
- Serbian odmah right now, immediately #187
- Slovak práve right now #97
- Slovenian pravica #905
- Spanish ya now, right now, anymore, no longer #40
- Swedish okej okay, all right #62
- Tagalog tama correct; right #97
- Tamil வலது #137
- Telugu కుడి right, belonging to the right #30
- Turkish sağ #244
- Ukrainian правильно correctly, properly, right, rightly #298
- Urdu ابھی immediately, right away, shortly, at once,… #120
- 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.