Afrikaans heeltemal | ||
Albanian plotësisht | ||
Amharic ሙሉ በሙሉ | ||
Arabic تماما | ||
Armenian ամբողջությամբ | ||
Assamese সম্পূৰ্ণ | ||
Aymara phuqhachata | ||
Azerbaijani tamamilə | ||
Bambara pewu | ||
Basque erabat | ||
Belarusian цалкам | ||
Bengali সম্পূর্ণরূপে | ||
Bhojpuri पूरा तरह से | ||
Bosnian potpuno | ||
Bulgarian напълно | ||
Catalan completament | ||
Cebuano hingpit | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 完全地 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 完全地 | ||
Corsican cumpletamente | ||
Croatian potpuno | ||
Czech zcela | ||
Danish fuldstændig | ||
Dhivehi އެއްކޮށް | ||
Dogri पूरी चाल्ली | ||
Dutch helemaal | ||
English completely | ||
Esperanto tute | ||
Estonian täielikult | ||
Ewe blibo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ganap | ||
Finnish täysin | ||
French complètement | ||
Frisian hielendal | ||
Galician completamente | ||
Georgian მთლიანად | ||
German vollständig | ||
Greek εντελώς | ||
Guarani opaite | ||
Gujarati સંપૂર્ણપણે | ||
Haitian Creole konplètman | ||
Hausa gaba daya | ||
Hawaiian loa | ||
Hebrew לַחֲלוּטִין | ||
Hindi पूरी तरह | ||
Hmong kiag li | ||
Hungarian teljesen | ||
Icelandic alveg | ||
Igbo kpam kpam | ||
Ilocano kompleto | ||
Indonesian sama sekali | ||
Irish go hiomlán | ||
Italian completamente | ||
Japanese 完全に | ||
Javanese rampung | ||
Kannada ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh толығымен | ||
Khmer ទាំងស្រុង | ||
Kinyarwanda byuzuye | ||
Konkani पुरायेन | ||
Korean 완전히 | ||
Krio kpatakpata | ||
Kurdish hemû | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەتەواوی | ||
Kyrgyz толугу менен | ||
Lao ສົມບູນ | ||
Latin omnino | ||
Latvian pilnībā | ||
Lingala mobimba | ||
Lithuanian visiškai | ||
Luganda bulikimu | ||
Luxembourgish komplett | ||
Macedonian целосно | ||
Maithili सम्पूर्ण रूप सँ | ||
Malagasy tanteraka | ||
Malay sepenuhnya | ||
Malayalam പൂർണ്ണമായും | ||
Maltese kompletament | ||
Maori tino | ||
Marathi पूर्णपणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯄꯨꯡ ꯐꯥꯕ | ||
Mizo zavaiin | ||
Mongolian бүрэн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လုံးဝ | ||
Nepali पूर्ण रूपमा | ||
Norwegian helt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kwathunthu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସଂପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ | ||
Oromo guutummaan guutuutti | ||
Pashto په بشپړ ډول | ||
Persian به صورت کامل | ||
Polish całkowicie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) completamente | ||
Punjabi ਪੂਰੀ | ||
Quechua llapallan | ||
Romanian complet | ||
Russian полностью | ||
Samoan atoa | ||
Sanskrit पूर्णतया | ||
Scots Gaelic gu tur | ||
Sepedi ka botlalo | ||
Serbian у потпуности | ||
Sesotho ka botlalo | ||
Shona zvachose | ||
Sindhi مڪمل طور تي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම | ||
Slovak úplne | ||
Slovenian popolnoma | ||
Somali gebi ahaanba | ||
Spanish completamente | ||
Sundanese lengkep | ||
Swahili kabisa | ||
Swedish helt och hållet | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ganap na | ||
Tajik пурра | ||
Tamil முற்றிலும் | ||
Tatar тулысынча | ||
Telugu పూర్తిగా | ||
Thai สมบูรณ์ | ||
Tigrinya ሙሉእ ብሙሉእ | ||
Tsonga hetiseka | ||
Turkish tamamen | ||
Turkmen dolulygyna | ||
Twi (Akan) ne nyinaa | ||
Ukrainian повністю | ||
Urdu مکمل طور پر | ||
Uyghur پۈتۈنلەي | ||
Uzbek to'liq | ||
Vietnamese hoàn toàn | ||
Welsh yn llwyr | ||
Xhosa ngokupheleleyo | ||
Yiddish גאָר | ||
Yoruba patapata | ||
Zulu ngokuphelele |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Heeltemal is a Dutch word meaning 'wholly' or 'entirely', derived from the Old Dutch words 'heel' (whole) and 'temal' (measure). |
| Albanian | The word plotësisht comes from the Proto-Albanian word *plot-, meaning 'full'. |
| Amharic | The term "ሙሉ በሙሉ" emerged from the concept of a piece of clothing that fully covers something up from top to bottom. |
| Arabic | The word "تماما" comes from "التمام" meaning "perfection," hence "تماما" means "completely." |
| Azerbaijani | The word "tamamilə" can also mean "in full" or "to the fullest extent" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word “erabat” in Basque may derive from *orobat* 'all, complete', although the suffix *-obat* is not attested for Basque or Proto-Basque. |
| Belarusian | The word "цалкам" comes from the Slavic root "*celъ", meaning "whole" or "complete". |
| Bengali | The word "সম্পূর্ণরূপে" comes from the Sanskrit word "सम्पूर्णं", meaning "entirely, completely, whole". Alternatively, it can also mean "thoroughly, fully, adequately". |
| Bosnian | The word "potpuno" in Bosnian is derived from the Proto-Slavic *pьlnъ, meaning "full" or "whole." |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, the word "напълно" can also mean "fully" or "thoroughly." |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "completament" comes from the Latin "complementum", meaning "fulfillment" or "addition". |
| Cebuano | "Hingpit" also means "finished," "done," or "concluded" in Cebuano, which may have influenced its current meaning of "completely". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese character “完” in “完全地” means “to finish” or “to complete”. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 完全地, in the sense of “very much” or “totally,” is an older form of 完全 used in classical Chinese. |
| Corsican | "Cumpletamente" means "completely" in Corsican, and may also be an archaic form of "completament". |
| Croatian | Croatian "potpuno" comes from Old Church Slavonic "podъpьnъ", meaning "complete". The word also means "firm" in Croatian. |
| Czech | Zcela comes from the Slavic "celъ", which also appears in words such as "целый" and "целостный" in Russian. |
| Danish | The word "fuldstændig" comes from the Proto-Germanic word "fullistainaz," meaning "fullest". |
| Dutch | The expression "helemaal" is a corruption of the phrase "heel en al" ("totally and completely") used in the 16th century. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "tute" derives from Polish "tę" (all, completely) via Russian "туть" (here, there, everywhere). |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "täielikult" originates from the Middle Low German word "tegelîk", meaning 'thoroughly'. |
| Finnish | The word "täysin" in Finnish can also be used to describe something that is perfect, or to express the highest degree of something. |
| French | Complètement can also mean "totally" or "utterly" and comes from "completus," a Latin term for "filled up. |
| Frisian | In West Frisian, 'hielendal' can be used to mean 'entirely' or 'totally', whereas in East Frisian, it specifically refers to 'completely' or 'in its entirety'. |
| Galician | The noun "completo" (meaning "suit") is related to "completamente" in Spanish, which derives from "complementum" (Latin, "what fills up"). |
| German | Vollständig, meaning "full" or "complete," is etymologically linked to the verb "füllen" ("to fill"). |
| Greek | The word "εντελώς" derives from the ancient Greek word "έντελοϛ" meaning "perfect" or "complete". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "konplètman" is derived from the French word "complètement", meaning "completely". |
| Hausa | Gaba daya has two other meanings in Hausa: 'entirely' and 'totally'. |
| Hawaiian | The word loa can also mean "very" or "to a great extent". |
| Hebrew | The word "לחלוטין" in Hebrew, which means "completely," finds its roots in the verb "לַחֲלוֹט" (lachlot), meaning "to blanch" or "to parboil" |
| Hindi | "पूरी तरह" literally means "in a full manner" or "in its entirety". |
| Hmong | "Kiag li" also means "the whole of". |
| Hungarian | "Teljesen" comes from the Hungarian word "teljes", which means "full" or "whole". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "alveg" is derived from the Old Norse word "alvígr", which means "fully armed". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "kpam kpam" is also an intensifier meaning "very" or "extremely". |
| Indonesian | "Sama sekali" is an Indonesian phrase with no exact English equivalent, and can be used with a variety of meanings including "completely", "utterly", "entirely", "totally", "definitely", and "absolutely." |
| Irish | The word "go hiomlán" in Irish is derived from the Old Irish "i mlán", meaning "full" or "in full measure". |
| Italian | The word 'completamente' stems from the Latin word 'completus', meaning 'filled up' or 'entire'. |
| Japanese | 完全 literally means "complete circle," indicating the sense of wholeness and perfection. |
| Javanese | The root word "rampung" in Javanese carries the meaning of "empty", "finished", or "completed" |
| Kannada | "ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ" (pronounced "sam-poor-NAH") can also mean "sufficient" or "in full," depending on the context. |
| Kazakh | The word толығымен is also used figuratively to mean "fully", |
| Korean | The word "완전히" is also used for "to make whole" or "to fulfill". |
| Kurdish | Kurdish 'hemû' ('completely') also has the meaning of 'all of it', e.g., in 'hemû kes' ('everybody') |
| Latin | The Roman writer Cicero used "omnino" to mean "generally" or "on the whole," while Seneca used "omnino" to mean "by all means" or "without fail." |
| Latvian | The word "pilnībā" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *plein-, meaning "to be full". |
| Lithuanian | The word "visiškai" in Lithuanian comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "*wei-s-o" meaning "all, entirety, tribe" |
| Luxembourgish | Luxembourgish "komplett" derives from French "complet," sharing its meaning of "entire" or "full." |
| Macedonian | The word "целосно" in Macedonian can also mean "in full". |
| Malagasy | The word 'tanteraka' in Malagasy means 'completely', but it also has an alternate meaning of 'to the end'. This meaning can be seen in the phrase 'tanteraka ny ainy', which means 'until the end of one's life'. |
| Malay | In Malay, "sepenuhnya" means complete or total, derived from the root word "penuh" meaning full, and the prefix "se-" to intensify its meaning. |
| Maltese | Maltese "kompletament," from Italian "completamente," may also mean exclusively (without the negative connotation of Maltese "esklużsivament") |
| Maori | "Tino" also means "real", "essence", or "genuine" in Māori. |
| Marathi | The word "पूर्णपणे" is derived from the Sanskrit word "पूर्ण" meaning "full" or "complete", and is commonly used in Marathi to express completeness or totalidad. |
| Mongolian | The word "бүрэн" can also mean "whole" or "intact", and is related to the word "бүрий" ("every"). |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In Burmese, "လုံးဝ" not only means "completely" but also describes something "round" in shape. |
| Nepali | The word "पूर्ण रूपमा" also means "in full form" or "in its entirety". |
| Norwegian | The Old Norse origin of "helt" connects it to "health", "hale", and even "holy". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kwathunthu" has the connotation of something being finished and complete, without anything left out or unfinished. |
| Persian | The term "به صورت کامل" has a secondary meaning referring to a comprehensive or exhaustive manner. |
| Polish | The word "całkowicie" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *cělkъ, which also means "whole" or "entire." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Completamente" in Portuguese originates from the Latin word "complētus," meaning "filled up" or "complete." |
| Punjabi | "ਪੂਰੀ" can also refer to a type of fried bread popular in North India and Pakistan. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "complet" not only means "completely" but also "judicial panel". |
| Russian | Полностью originates from “полн” (fullness), and originally meant “to the brim” or even “drunken”. |
| Samoan | While in Polynesian languages like Māori and Tahitian, "atoa" means "all together," in Samoan it means "completely." |
| Scots Gaelic | "Gu tur" can also mean "up to" or "as far as". |
| Serbian | The word "у потпуности" can also mean "to the full extent" or "fully" depending on the context. |
| Sesotho | 'Ka botlalo' can also mean 'for good' or 'forever'. |
| Shona | The term "zvachose" in Shona can also be used metaphorically to imply thoroughness or excellence. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "مڪمل طور تي" means "completely" and also "thoroughly". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "úplne" comes from the Proto-Slavic "*oplьnъ", meaning "full, entire, whole". |
| Slovenian | The word 'popolnoma' originally meant 'fulfilled to the brim', alluding to a full goblet of wine. |
| Somali | "Gebi" means "of" or "on" and "ahaanba" means "the whole", so together it means "on the whole" or "completely". |
| Spanish | "Completamente" comes from the Latin "complementum" meaning something that fills up or makes something whole. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "lengkep" can also mean "complete set" or "assortment". |
| Swahili | The word "kabisa" can also mean "absolutely" or "entirely" depending on the context. |
| Swedish | The word "helt och hållet" (completely) literally translates to "whole and hole", and it also refers to the idea of being intact or unbroken. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "ganap" (complete) originates from the Sanskrit word "gam" (to go) and originally meant "perfect" or "whole". |
| Tajik | The word "пурра" in Tajik can also mean "very" or "thoroughly". |
| Telugu | Telugu word 'పూర్తిగా' stems from the root 'పూర్' meaning 'full' or 'whole', emphasizing the idea of wholeness or totality. |
| Thai | The word "สมบูรณ์" comes from the Pali word "sampunna" meaning "complete, perfect, or accomplished". |
| Turkish | The word 'tamamen' is derived from the Arabic word 'tam', meaning 'whole' or 'entire', and the Turkish suffix '-men', which indicates completeness. |
| Ukrainian | The word "повністю" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *polnъ, meaning "full" or "complete". |
| Urdu | مکمل طور پر is derived from the Arabic word كمل (kamala), which means 'to complete, to perfect, or to make whole'. |
| Uzbek | The word "to'liq" also means "full, whole" in Uzbek, and is cognate with the Persian word "توَلى" (tawalla) and the Arabic word "تَوْلى" (tawlī) meaning "to take charge (of something)". |
| Vietnamese | The word "hoàn toàn" is derived from the Chinese word "完全", which means "complete, perfect, or whole". |
| Welsh | The word "yn llwyr" is also used to mean "thoroughly" or "fully". |
| Xhosa | The word "ngokupheleleyo" can also mean "perfectly" or "thoroughly" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | "גאָר" is used colloquially to mean "very much," "a great deal," or "at all." |
| Yoruba | The word "patapata" in Yoruba can also mean "totally" or "utterly". |
| Zulu | The word "ngokuphelele" in Zulu is derived from the root -phelele, meaning "to be sufficient" or "to be adequate". |
| English | The word "completely" derives from the Old French word "complet”, meaning "fulfilled" or "finished", and ultimately from the Latin word "complere", meaning "to fill up". |