Always in Different Languages
Discover 'Always' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Always
Afrikaans altyd | ||
Albanian gjithmone | ||
Amharic ሁል ጊዜ | ||
Arabic دائما | ||
Armenian միշտ | ||
Assamese সদায় | ||
Aymara ukhamapuni | ||
Azerbaijani həmişə | ||
Bambara tuma bɛ | ||
Basque beti | ||
Belarusian заўсёды | ||
Bengali সর্বদা | ||
Bhojpuri हर दम | ||
Bosnian uvijek | ||
Bulgarian винаги | ||
Catalan sempre | ||
Cebuano kanunay | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 总是 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 總是 | ||
Corsican sempre | ||
Croatian stalno | ||
Czech vždy | ||
Danish altid | ||
Dhivehi އަބަދުވެސް | ||
Dogri म्हेशां | ||
Dutch altijd | ||
English always | ||
Esperanto ĉiam | ||
Estonian alati | ||
Ewe ɣe sia ɣi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) palagi | ||
Finnish aina | ||
French toujours | ||
Frisian altyd | ||
Galician sempre | ||
Georgian ყოველთვის | ||
German immer | ||
Greek πάντα | ||
Guarani akói | ||
Gujarati હંમેશા | ||
Haitian Creole toujou | ||
Hausa koyaushe | ||
Hawaiian mau | ||
Hebrew תמיד | ||
Hindi हमेशा | ||
Hmong yeej ib txwm | ||
Hungarian mindig | ||
Icelandic alltaf | ||
Igbo mgbe niile | ||
Ilocano kanayon | ||
Indonesian selalu | ||
Irish i gcónaí | ||
Italian sempre | ||
Japanese 常に | ||
Javanese tansah | ||
Kannada ಯಾವಾಗಲೂ | ||
Kazakh әрқашан | ||
Khmer ជានិច្ច | ||
Kinyarwanda burigihe | ||
Konkani सदांच | ||
Korean 항상 | ||
Krio ɔltɛm | ||
Kurdish herdem | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گشت کاتێک | ||
Kyrgyz ар дайым | ||
Lao ສະເຫມີ | ||
Latin semper | ||
Latvian vienmēr | ||
Lingala ntango nyonso | ||
Lithuanian visada | ||
Luganda buli kaseera | ||
Luxembourgish ëmmer | ||
Macedonian секогаш | ||
Maithili सदिखन | ||
Malagasy foana | ||
Malay selalu | ||
Malayalam എല്ലായ്പ്പോഴും | ||
Maltese dejjem | ||
Maori i nga wa katoa | ||
Marathi नेहमी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯇꯝ ꯄꯨꯝꯕꯗ | ||
Mizo englaipawhin | ||
Mongolian үргэлж | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အမြဲတမ်း | ||
Nepali सँधै | ||
Norwegian alltid | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) nthawi zonse | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସବୁବେଳେ | ||
Oromo yeroo hunda | ||
Pashto تل | ||
Persian همیشه | ||
Polish zawsze | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) sempre | ||
Punjabi ਹਮੇਸ਼ਾ | ||
Quechua sapa kuti | ||
Romanian mereu | ||
Russian всегда | ||
Samoan i taimi uma | ||
Sanskrit सर्वदा | ||
Scots Gaelic an-còmhnaidh | ||
Sepedi ka mehla | ||
Serbian увек | ||
Sesotho kamehla | ||
Shona nguva dzose | ||
Sindhi هميشه | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සැමවිටම | ||
Slovak vždy | ||
Slovenian nenehno | ||
Somali had iyo jeer | ||
Spanish siempre | ||
Sundanese salawasna | ||
Swahili kila mara | ||
Swedish alltid | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) palagi | ||
Tajik ҳамеша | ||
Tamil எப்போதும் | ||
Tatar һәрвакыт | ||
Telugu ఎల్లప్పుడూ | ||
Thai เสมอ | ||
Tigrinya ወትሪ | ||
Tsonga nkarhi hinkwawo | ||
Turkish her zaman | ||
Turkmen elmydama | ||
Twi (Akan) berɛ biara | ||
Ukrainian завжди | ||
Urdu ہمیشہ | ||
Uyghur ھەمىشە | ||
Uzbek har doim | ||
Vietnamese luôn luôn | ||
Welsh bob amser | ||
Xhosa njalo | ||
Yiddish אַלע מאָל | ||
Yoruba nigbagbogbo | ||
Zulu njalo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Altyd", the equivalent of "always" in English is derived from the Middle Dutch word "altijt", which literally meant "all times". The "a-", however, is no longer present in modern Dutch, but is still preserved in some of its daughter language, including Afrikaans and German. |
| Albanian | Gjithmone in Albanian is akin to the Sanskrit phrase 'sadā sarva-kālam', which translates to 'all times, every time'. |
| Amharic | The word "ሁል ጊዜ" can also mean "all the time" or "continually". |
| Arabic | The word "دائما" can also mean "ever" or "at all times" in addition to "always". |
| Armenian | Միշտ (misht) and միշ (mish), both meaning "eternally" in Armenian, share the same etymological root as the Persian "mish" and the Sanskrit "misra" |
| Basque | The Basque word 'beti' also means 'all' and is used to form adverbs, such as 'betik' (always) and 'behetik' (underneath). |
| Belarusian | "Заўсёды" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *vьsьdь, meaning "at every time, all the time". |
| Bengali | The word "সর্বদা" is derived from the Sanskrit word "सर्वदा," which also means "always". |
| Bosnian | The etymology of the word "uvijek" is unclear, but it is thought to be related to the Slavic word "veky" meaning "age" or "time." |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian "винаги" ultimately derives from Old Church Slavonic words meaning "at every time." |
| Catalan | Catalan "sempre" derives from Latin "semper" but can also mean "at any time". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "kanunay" originally meant "regularly" or "periodically", and is derived from the Proto-Austronesian root *kanaq which means "repeatedly" or "often". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 总是 (zǒng shì) can also mean "as a rule" or "usually". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Chinese, 總是 can also mean "in general" or "usually". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "sempre" can also mean "every time" or "constantly". |
| Croatian | The word "stalno" also means "regularly" or "constantly" in Croatian. |
| Czech | Vždy is cognate with 'vezda' ('everywhere') and originally meant 'in all ways'. |
| Danish | The Danish word "altid" is cognate with the German "allzeit" (always/at all times) and "elda" (ancient/old) in Old Norse. |
| Dutch | The word “altijd” also refers to “a lifetime, an epoch” in a historic sense. |
| Esperanto | "Ĉiam" is an Esperanto word that also means "eternal"} |
| Estonian | The word "alati" derives from the Proto-Uralic word *ale" meaning "ever". It can also mean "in good time", and is used in this sense in expressions like "alati valmis" ("always ready"). |
| Finnish | The word "aina" in Finnish can also refer to "eternally" or "constantly." |
| French | The word "toujours" in French does not come from the Latin semper as might be expected, but rather from the Middle French phrase "tous les jours" |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "altyd" can also mean "completely" or "in all circumstances". |
| Galician | Sempre can also mean "for now" or even "this year" in Galician. |
| German | The name of the town Immer originated from the Proto-Germanic word "*imra" (lake). |
| Greek | The word "πάντα" also means "all" or "everything" in Greek and is often used in this sense. |
| Gujarati | The word "હંમેશા" is derived from the Sanskrit word "सहमेव" (saha + eva), meaning "with" and "only" respectively, and signifies constant companionship or presence. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "toujou" also means "regularly" or "normally." |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'koyaushe' is linked to the Kunama verb 'ku-a' and the Maba verb 'a-gu', both meaning to remain. |
| Hawaiian | The word "mau" can also be used to mean "continuous", "incessant", "constantly", "perpetually", "unceasingly", "without end", or "everlasting". |
| Hebrew | תמיד also means "eternally" in Hebrew and comes from the word "תמם" ("tamem") meaning "complete". |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "हमेशा" can also be used to mean "often" or "regularly." |
| Hmong | In addition to meaning "always," "yeej ib txwm" also refers to the act of preserving or passing down culture. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "mindig" is derived from the root "minde" meaning "every" and "ig" meaning "time" or "occasion." |
| Icelandic | The word "alltaf" shares its stem with the word "allt" meaning "everything" and in the genitive or accusative plural is also used to mean "always". |
| Igbo | Mgbe niile, which translates as "always" in the Igbo language, can also be used to express the idea of "at any time". |
| Indonesian | Selalu is derived from the Sanskrit word 'sarvada', meaning 'at all times' or 'continuously'. |
| Italian | Oltre al significato di "sempre", "sempre" può anche significare "di nuovo" o "ancora". |
| Japanese | It also means "ever" or "all the time" in a non-temporal sense. |
| Javanese | The word "tansah" in Javanese also has alternate meanings such as "continuously" and "regularly". |
| Kannada | ಯಾವಾಗಲೂ has historically referred to "every day" in some South Indian dialects. |
| Kazakh | "Әрқашан" is sometimes used to mean "never" with negative verbs (in which case it means that something "never happens"). |
| Khmer | The word "ជានិច្ច" (always) in Khmer is derived from the Sanskrit word "nitya," meaning "constant" or "eternal." |
| Korean | "항상" (always) is derived from the word "항" (a side) and "상" (direction), which means "in all directions" or "on all sides". |
| Kurdish | "Herdem" also means "eternally" and "every time" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | "Ар дайым" in Kyrgyz can also mean "at all times" or "constantly". |
| Lao | {"text": "The word ສະເຫມີ ('always') is derived from Sanskrit "samahita" (concentrated, collected), cognate with Thai เสมอ ("always, consistent", also referring to "equality or likeness")"} |
| Latin | Semper derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem-, meaning 'together' or 'as one'. |
| Latvian | The word "vienmēr" is derived from the Proto-Baltic word *wiən, meaning "time". |
| Lithuanian | The etymology of the Lithuanian word "visada" ("always") is uncertain, but it may be related to the word "visas" ("all"). |
| Luxembourgish | In old Luxembourgish, "ëmmer" also referred to a kind of wheat grown and used for baking bread. |
| Macedonian | The word "секогаш" is derived from the Slavic root "seg", meaning "this" or "now". |
| Malagasy | "Foana" derives from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian "*puna", meaning "again" or "again and again". |
| Malay | The word "selalu" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*salu" meaning "one" or "together", reflecting its original meaning of "constantly" or "without interruption". |
| Malayalam | The word 'എല്ലായ്പ്പോഴും' in Malayalam has multiple meanings depending on the context, including 'always', 'every time', and 'generally'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "dejjem" derives from the Arabic word "da'iman", which means "eternally". |
| Maori | The phrase 'i nga wa katoa' can refer to 'the eternal moment', 'in the past', 'in the present', or 'in the future'. |
| Marathi | In addition to meaning "always," "नेहमी" also means "frequently," "regularly," or "habitually." |
| Mongolian | "Үргэлж" is derived from the verb "үргэх" meaning "to continue" or "to endure". |
| Nepali | The word "सँधै" is derived from the Sanskrit word "सर्पदा" meaning "constantly" or "continuously." |
| Norwegian | The word 'alltid' stems from 'all' (age) + 'tid' (time), referring to every age or time. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Alternate meanings for 'nthawi zonse' include 'every time' and 'all the time'. |
| Pashto | Alternate meaning: a hill, mound or small mountain. |
| Persian | In Persian, "همیشه" (always) originally meant "all times" or "continuously" but is now used to express timelessness or perpetuity. |
| Polish | The word "zawsze" in Polish means both "always" and "continuously". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Sempre" is derived from the Latin "semper," meaning "constantly" or "without end." |
| Punjabi | "ਹਮੇਸ਼ਾ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "samasta", which means "entire". It can also mean "at all times" or "without fail". |
| Romanian | The adverb "mereu" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "mьrъvъ" meaning "mortal", "eternal", or "ceaseless". |
| Russian | "Всегда" is derived from "все" (all) and "гда" (when), meaning "at all times". |
| Samoan | I taimi uma means "always," but can also mean "at all times" or "continually" |
| Scots Gaelic | An alternative meaning of the word "an-còmhnaidh" is "a dwelling", and comes from the Proto-Celtic root *kombi, meaning "crooked" or "bent", in reference to the roof trusses that form a dwelling's framework. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "увек" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *vьsьkъdy, meaning "everywhere". |
| Sesotho | In addition to "always," kamehla can also mean "forever" or "eternally" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word 'nguva dzose' is also used to refer to the concept of 'every time' or 'constantly'. |
| Sindhi | "هميشه" originates from "هميشک" which means "at any time" or "forever." |
| Slovak | "vždy" can also mean "eternally" or "at all times". |
| Slovenian | In the archaic language of some Slovenian dialects, "nenehno" could also have meant "very" or "completely". |
| Somali | The Somali word "had iyo jeer" is a compound word, composed of "had" (past) and "jeer" (time), likely referring to a time that has already come and gone, connoting perpetuity. |
| Spanish | The word "siempre" derives from the Latin word "semper" meaning "continuously". |
| Sundanese | The word "salawasna" in Sundanese is derived from the word "salawi", which means "constant" or "continual". |
| Swahili | The word "kila mara" can also be used to mean "every time" or "on every occasion". |
| Swedish | The word "alltid" comes from the Old Norse word "allr" meaning "entire". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In other Philippine languages, the word 'palagi' means 'every other day' and 'one day between two days'. |
| Tajik | The word "ҳамеша" is often used to mean "every day" when talking about a routine. |
| Tamil | "எப்போதும்" can also refer to an unchanging state or a continuous action. |
| Thai | "เสมอ" can also mean "level" (e.g. "พื้นเสมอ") or "equal" (e.g. "เท่าเสมอ"). |
| Turkish | "Her zaman" kelimesi "her zaman"dan daha fazlasını ifade eder. "Her zaman" sözcüğü "her zaman" anlamına gelen Arapça "daimen" kelimesinden türemiştir. |
| Ukrainian | "Завжди" is cognate with the Old Church Slavonic word "въжди" (vъždi), meaning "later" or "immediately." |
| Urdu | "ہمیشہ" is derived from the Persian/Arabic word "hamish" meaning "constant" or "perpetual". |
| Uzbek | The word "har doim" in Uzbek is also used to mean "permanently" or "constantly". |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "luôn luôn" also implies a continuous or constant state, and can be used to describe ongoing processes or habitual actions. |
| Welsh | The Welsh phrase "bob amser" also means "any time" and "all the time". |
| Xhosa | The word 'njalo' can also refer to regularity. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "אַלע מאָל" can also mean "sometimes" or "every time". |
| Yoruba | "Nigbagbogbo" is originally a noun meaning "a whole". Its usage as an adverb is derived from its noun meaning.} |
| Zulu | The word 'njalo' can also be used to indicate 'at once' or 'continuously'. |
| English | The word "always" is derived from the Old English word "eallwege," which means "all ways" or "at all times." |