How to say “right” in 53 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.
- ঠিক/ʈʰik/ Bengali
- வலது/ʋɐlɐd̪ɯ/ Tamil
- కుడి/kuɖi/ Telugu
“right” in French: droite · Turkish: sağ
It is commonest in Bengali, where ঠিক is the 19th most used word.
Right in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans reg/rɛχ ~ ræχ/ right; correct #99
- Albanian djathtë/djaθtə/ #879
- Arabic حال/ħaːla/ during, right after, immediately upon #123
- Armenian բարի/bɑˈɾi/ all right!, very well!, agreed!, OK #55
- Basque zuzena/s̻us̻ena/ right, correct #458
- Bengali ঠিক/ʈʰik/ right, exactly, just #19
- Bosnian odmah/ôdmaːx/ right now, immediately #188
- Bulgarian веднага[vɛdˈnaɡɐ] immediately; right away #213
- Catalan dret[ˈdɾɛt] right; opposite of left #618
- Chinese 可不/kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹/ you're absolutely right!; right!; exactly!;… #384
- Croatian odmah/ôdmaːx/ right now, immediately #194
- Czech hned[ˈɦnɛt] immediately, right away #199
- Danish rigtig/ˈrekti/ #302
- Dutch juiste/ˈjœystə/ right, correct #695
- English right/ɹaɪt/ On the right side #49
- Esperanto ĝuste/ˈd͡ʒuste/ just; right #196
- Estonian kohe/ˈkohe/ at once, immediately, right away #122
- Finnish juuri/ˈjuːri/ right, just, exactly, precisely #107
- French droite/dʁwat/ #949
- Galician certo/ˈθɛɾto/ right, correct #219
- Georgian ახლავე[äχɫäve̞] right away, right now, now, this instant #400
- German stimmt/ˈʃtɪmt/ to be right, to be correct, to be proper, to… #276
- Greek εντάξει/enˈda.ksi/ OK, all right, in order #48
- Hebrew בסדר/beseder/ all right, okay, O.K #17
- Hindi अभी/ə.bʱiː/ right now #104
- Hungarian rendben[ˈrɛndbɛn] all right, okay #48
- Icelandic strax/straks/ immediately, right away #175
- Indonesian baiklah/baˈik.lah/ all right; alright #93
- Italian esatto/eˈzat.to/ exact, correct, right #553
- Korean 당장[ta̠ŋd͡ʑa̠ŋ] At once; immediately thereafter; right now #143
- Latvian pareizi/ˈpareizi/ right, correct, rightly, correctly; adverbial… #246
- Lithuanian tiesiog[tʲjɛˈsʲoɡ] straight, right #79
- Macedonian нели[ˈnɛli] right, don't you think #108
- Malay baiklah/baˈiklah/ all right #87
- Malayalam ഇടത്/iɖɐd̪ɨ/ left; opposite of right #1,370
- Norwegian akkurat[ˈɑkːʉɾɑːt] right, exactly #180
- Persian درست[d̪o.ɹost̪ʰ] correct, right #67
- Polish prawo/ˈpra.vɔ/ to the right #528
- Portuguese agora/aˈɡɔ.ɾɐ/ now; right now #57
- Romanian acum/aˈkum/ now; right now; at present #41
- Russian хорошо[xoroˈʂo] well, right #41
- Serbian odmah/ôdmaːx/ right now, immediately #187
- Slovak práve/praːve/ right now #97
- Slovenian pravica/praʋìːt͡sa/ #905
- Spanish ya/ˈʝa/ now, right now, anymore, no longer #40
- Swedish okej/ɔˈkɛj/ okay, all right #62
- Tagalog tama/ˈtamaʔ/ correct; right #97
- Tamil வலது/ʋɐlɐd̪ɯ/ #137
- Telugu కుడి/kuɖi/ right, belonging to the right #30
- Turkish sağ/ˈsaː/ #244
- Ukrainian правильно[ˈpraʋelʲnɔ] correctly, properly, right, rightly #298
- Urdu ابھی/əbʱiː/ immediately, right away, shortly, at once,… #120
- 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 Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), 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).
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