Afrikaans in wese | ||
Albanian në thelb | ||
Amharic በመሠረቱ | ||
Arabic بشكل أساسي | ||
Armenian ըստ էության | ||
Assamese মূলতঃ | ||
Aymara esencial ukhamawa | ||
Azerbaijani mahiyyətcə | ||
Bambara a jɔyɔrɔba la | ||
Basque funtsean | ||
Belarusian па сутнасці | ||
Bengali মূলত | ||
Bhojpuri अनिवार्य रूप से बा | ||
Bosnian esencijalno | ||
Bulgarian по същество | ||
Catalan essencialment | ||
Cebuano hinungdanon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 本质上 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 本質上 | ||
Corsican essenzialmente | ||
Croatian u suštini | ||
Czech v podstatě | ||
Danish i det væsentlige | ||
Dhivehi މުހިންމު ގޮތެއްގައި | ||
Dogri अनिवार्य रूप कन्नै | ||
Dutch eigenlijk | ||
English essentially | ||
Esperanto esence | ||
Estonian sisuliselt | ||
Ewe vevietɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mahalagang | ||
Finnish oleellisesti | ||
French essentiellement | ||
Frisian yn wêzen | ||
Galician esencialmente | ||
Georgian არსებითად | ||
German im wesentlichen | ||
Greek ουσιαστικά | ||
Guarani esencialmente | ||
Gujarati અનિવાર્યપણે | ||
Haitian Creole esansyèlman | ||
Hausa da gaske | ||
Hawaiian ʻano nui | ||
Hebrew בעצם | ||
Hindi अनिवार्य रूप से | ||
Hmong tseem ceeb | ||
Hungarian lényegében | ||
Icelandic í meginatriðum | ||
Igbo nnoo | ||
Ilocano kangrunaanna | ||
Indonesian pada dasarnya | ||
Irish go bunúsach | ||
Italian essenzialmente | ||
Japanese 本質的に | ||
Javanese ateges | ||
Kannada ಮೂಲಭೂತವಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh мәні бойынша | ||
Khmer សំខាន់ | ||
Kinyarwanda by'ingenzi | ||
Konkani मुळाव्यान | ||
Korean 본질적으로 | ||
Krio essentially | ||
Kurdish esas | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لە بنەڕەتدا | ||
Kyrgyz негизинен | ||
Lao ເປັນສິ່ງ ຈຳ ເປັນ | ||
Latin se | ||
Latvian būtībā | ||
Lingala na ntina mpenza | ||
Lithuanian iš esmės | ||
Luganda mu bukulu | ||
Luxembourgish wesentlech | ||
Macedonian во суштина | ||
Maithili अनिवार्य रूप स | ||
Malagasy indrindra | ||
Malay secara asasnya | ||
Malayalam അടിസ്ഥാനപരമായി | ||
Maltese essenzjalment | ||
Maori tino | ||
Marathi मूलत: | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯉꯥꯏꯐꯗꯅꯥ ꯑꯦꯟ.ꯗꯤ.ꯑꯦ | ||
Mizo a bul berah chuan | ||
Mongolian үндсэндээ | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အခြေခံအားဖြင့် | ||
Nepali अनिवार्य रूपमा | ||
Norwegian i hovedsak | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kwenikweni | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମୁଖ୍ୟତ। | | ||
Oromo bu’uuraan | ||
Pashto په لازمي ډول | ||
Persian اساسا | ||
Polish głównie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) essencialmente | ||
Punjabi ਜ਼ਰੂਰੀ ਤੌਰ ਤੇ | ||
Quechua esencialmente | ||
Romanian in esenta | ||
Russian по существу | ||
Samoan matua taua | ||
Sanskrit अनिवार्यतया | ||
Scots Gaelic gu bunaiteach | ||
Sepedi gabotsebotse | ||
Serbian у суштини | ||
Sesotho hantle | ||
Shona chaizvo | ||
Sindhi بنيادي طور تي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අත්යවශ්යයෙන්ම | ||
Slovak v podstate | ||
Slovenian v bistvu | ||
Somali asal ahaan | ||
Spanish esencialmente | ||
Sundanese intina | ||
Swahili kimsingi | ||
Swedish väsentligen | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mahalaga | ||
Tajik аслан | ||
Tamil அடிப்படையில் | ||
Tatar асылда | ||
Telugu ముఖ్యంగా | ||
Thai โดยพื้นฐานแล้ว | ||
Tigrinya ብመሰረቱ | ||
Tsonga hi xiviri | ||
Turkish esasen | ||
Turkmen esasan | ||
Twi (Akan) ne titiriw no | ||
Ukrainian по суті | ||
Urdu بنیادی طور پر | ||
Uyghur ماھىيەتتە | ||
Uzbek mohiyatan | ||
Vietnamese bản chất | ||
Welsh yn y bôn | ||
Xhosa ngokukodwa | ||
Yiddish יסענשאַלי | ||
Yoruba pataki | ||
Zulu empeleni |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The phrase "in wese" in Afrikaans is derived from the Dutch phrase "in wezen", ultimately coming from the Old French word "essence" meaning "being". |
| Albanian | The word "në thelb" is made of the preposition "në" and the noun "thelb", meaning "root". |
| Amharic | በመሠረቱ ('essentially') also means 'at its foundation' or 'fundamentally'. |
| Arabic | بشكل أساسي means "essentially" in Arabic but also connotes "fundamentally" or "intrinsically." |
| Basque | Funtsean (essentially) derives from funtsa (base), and has an alternate meaning of 'fundamentally'. |
| Bengali | মূলত শব্দটি সংস্কৃত "মূল" শব্দ থেকে এসেছে, যার অর্থ "শিকড়" বা "মূল"। |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian word "esencijalno" comes from the Latin word "essentia", meaning "being" or "existence". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "по същество" can also mean "in reality" or "in essence". |
| Catalan | Essencialment comes from the Latin word "essentialis," meaning "of the essence" or "of the nature of a thing." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "本质上"也可指一件事物的内在本质或真实性质,例如:"从本质上讲,人类是群居动物。" |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "本質上"原指植物的根,引申為事物事物的根本属性或主要特徵。 |
| Corsican | "Essenzialmente" in Corsican can also mean "especially" or "particularly". |
| Croatian | The word "u suštini" (essentially) in Croatian derives from the Latin word "substantia" (substance). |
| Czech | The Czech word "v podstatě" can also refer to the substance or essential nature of something. |
| Danish | The Danish word "i det væsentlige" is used in the same way as the English word "essentially", but it can also mean "in the main" or "for the most part." |
| Dutch | Historically, the word "eigenlijk" was used in the sense of "very" or "really". |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "esence" comes from French "essence," ultimately deriving from Latin "*ens," meaning "being." |
| Estonian | The word "sisuliselt" originally meant "in terms of content" and has only later evolved to also mean "essentially". |
| Finnish | "Oleellisesti" consists of two parts: "ole", meaning "be", and "ellinen", meaning "of the nature of". The word "oleellisesti" came into use during the 17th century as an adverb derived from the adjective "oleellinen", which means "essential". |
| French | "Essentiellement" derives from the Latin word "esse", meaning "to be", and also refers to the quality of being essential, or fundamental. |
| Frisian | It is cognate with the German wesend, which ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European *wes-o-, meaning "to remain." |
| Galician | Además del significado de 'esencialmente' o 'vital', 'esencialmente' puede significar 'principalmente' o 'generalmente'. |
| German | The German word im Wesentlichen (essentially) derives from Middle High German "wesentlich"/"wesenliche" (being, being true). |
| Greek | The word "ουσιαστικά" is derived from the word "ουσία", which means "substance". In Greek grammar, it is used to refer to nouns that are the subject of a sentence and that express the main idea. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "esansyèlman" is derived from the French word "essentiel," meaning "fundamental" or "of the essence." |
| Hausa | The word da gaske is a compound of da, meaning «to be», and gaske, meaning «truth». |
| Hawaiian | 'Ano nui' translates to 'very much' or 'very greatly' in English. |
| Hebrew | The word "בעצם" can also mean "actually" or "in fact". |
| Hindi | "अनिवार्य रूप से" is an adverb meaning "without fail" or denoting a necessary consequence. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "tseem ceeb" was borrowed from Chinese. |
| Hungarian | "Lényegében" can also mean "as a matter of principle," "in substance," or "fundamentally". |
| Icelandic | The word "í meginatriðum" in Icelandic is a derivative of the word "megin", which means "essence" or "core". The word "atriði" is a plural form of "atriði", which means "item" or "particular". Therefore, the word "í meginatriðum" can be understood as being "in the core items" or "in the main particulars". This is a more literal translation of the word than the more common translation of "essentially". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "nnoo" also means "the essence of" or "the core of". |
| Indonesian | "Pada dasarnya" in Indonesian can also mean "by nature" or "intrinsically". |
| Irish | Go bunúsach is an Irish phrase meaning 'essentially', but can also mean 'fundamentally' or 'in essence'. |
| Italian | Essenzialmente, in its plural form, can mean essential oils. |
| Japanese | 本質的に is a word that can be translated as "essentially" into English, but its etymology is more complex, consisting of the words "hon" (root, origin), "shit" (quality, nature), and "teki" (adjective suffix). |
| Javanese | "Ateges" also means thorough, meticulous, or complete |
| Khmer | The word "សំខាន់" can also refer to the "main part" or "gist" of something, or to "the most important thing" or "the essence" of something. |
| Korean | "본질적으로" is a compound of "본질(essence)" and "~적으로(~ly, ~ly)", and has a nuance that is "innate" and "pervasive than "기본적으로(basically)". |
| Kurdish | The word "esas" also means "law" or "rule" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "негизинен" in Kyrgyz can also mean "primordial", "primary", or "basic".} |
| Latin | Latin "se" can mean "aside", "separate", or "without". |
| Latvian | The word "būtībā" in Latvian can also mean "primarily" or "in general". |
| Lithuanian | "Iš esmės" is sometimes used to mean "in general" or "on the whole" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | The expression 'wesentlech' is often used as a euphemism for 'mainly', 'particularly' or 'especially'. |
| Macedonian | The word "во суштина" comes from the Old Church Slavonic words "въ" (in) and "суштина" (essence) |
| Malagasy | Indrindra, meaning "very" or "indeed" in Malagasy, is possibly borrowed from the Indonesian word "sangat" with the same meaning. |
| Malay | The word "secara asasnya" derives from the Malay word "asas" meaning "basis" and is also used in the sense of "generally" or "in general". |
| Maltese | In Maltese, the word "essenzjalment" can also mean "fundamentally" or "basically." |
| Maori | Tīno, which can be defined as "fundamentally", is an important philosophical term in the Māori worldview. |
| Marathi | मूलत: is short for "मूळतः", which in turn comes from the word "मूल" meaning "root", "origin", and "base." |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "үндсэндээ" comes from the root word "үндэс", meaning "foundation" or "root", and is used to emphasize the fundamental nature or core aspect of something. |
| Nepali | The word "अनिवार्य रूपमा" is derived from the Sanskrit word "अनिवार्य" (essential) and can also mean "necessarily" or "obligatory". |
| Norwegian | The word "i hovedsak" literally translates to "in the main thing". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kwenikweni" also means "in essence" or "in reality". |
| Persian | The Persian word "اساسا" (asasan) comes from the Arabic word "أَساسًا" (asāsan), which means "foundation" or "basis." |
| Polish | Głównie, meaning 'mainly' in Polish, is derived from the Old Polish word 'głowa', meaning 'head' or 'source'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "essencialmente" can mean "basically" or "mainly" in Portuguese. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "in esenta" is derived from the Latin preposition "in" and the noun "essentia," meaning "the true nature of something." |
| Russian | The Russian phrase is a calque from the German 'im Wesentlichen' and has the same meaning, but can also mean 'on merit'. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "matua taua" is derived from the word "matua," meaning "parent" or "elder," and "tau," meaning "warrior" or "champion." |
| Scots Gaelic | "Gu bunaiteach" (essentially) could also mean "by nature" or "fundamentally". |
| Serbian | The word "У суштини" can also mean "in essence" or "fundamentally" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | "Hantle" in Sesotho also means "truly," "without a doubt," and "very much." |
| Shona | The word "chaizvo" is said to have originated from the phrase "cha zvirevo", meaning "like something animalistic", possibly referring to the primal nature of the concept being described. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "بنيادي طور تي" is used to describe something as being fundamental or essential, or as being a basic or underlying characteristic of something. |
| Slovak | The word "v podstate" is sometimes used as a euphemism for "almost" or "approximately". |
| Slovenian | "V bistvu" is derived from the word "bistvo" which means "essence" or "the most important part of something." |
| Somali | 'Asal ahaan' is used to express the basic or fundamental nature of something, but can also mean 'originally' or 'in the beginning'. |
| Spanish | El término "esencialmente" también puede significar "fundamentalmente" o "intrínsecamente". |
| Sundanese | "Intina" in Sundanese denotes the inner layer of plant seeds, especially rice, and is derived from the base word "inti" meaning "core" or "essence." |
| Swahili | It also means 'in principle' or 'fundamentally'. |
| Swedish | Väsentligen is a loanword from German, and its suffix "-ligen" is cognate to English "-ly", both of which derive from Proto-Indo-European "-liko". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The term 'mahalaga' originally meant 'of value,' or 'importance' before coming to mean 'essentially.' |
| Tajik | The word "аслан" is derived from the Old Persian word "assān", meaning "easy" or "effortless." |
| Thai | โดยพื้นฐานแล้ว is often translated as “fundamentally”; it is also frequently used to say “basically” or “fundamentally” (in a less formal context). |
| Turkish | Esasen shares the word “as” (the source of the English word “ass”) with “esas” (meaning "ancient" or "bygone"). |
| Ukrainian | "по суті" comes from the prefix "по-", meaning "along, by, near," and the root "сут-", meaning "to be," so the whole word literally means "according to the way it is." |
| Uzbek | "Mohiyatan" (essentially) comes from the Arabic word "mahhiyat" (essence) and shares the same root with the word "mohiyat" (substance). |
| Vietnamese | The word 'bản chất' derives from Sino-Vietnamese and can also mean 'nature', 'essence', or 'substance'. |
| Welsh | Y bôn also means "the beginning" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | Xhosa "ngokukodwa" derives from the noun "ikodwa" (lone, single), indicating that something is isolated, alone, or fundamental. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "יסענשאַלי" is also used in the sense of "in fact" or "in reality". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "pataki" also means "very important" or "crucial." |
| Zulu | 'Empeleni' is thought, by many linguists, to be a derivation (and a contraction) of the word 'umkhawempeleni', where 'uMk' is the isiNguni prefix 'uMu', denoting a person, an agent or one who is known for a particular characteristic. |
| English | "Essentially" derives from Latin "essentia," meaning "nature, being" & "-al," meaning "related to," in reference to the essence or central nature of something. |