Exact in Different Languages
Discover 'Exact' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Exact
Afrikaans presies | ||
Albanian e saktë | ||
Amharic ትክክለኛ | ||
Arabic بالضبط | ||
Armenian ճշգրիտ | ||
Assamese সঠিক | ||
Aymara ukhapuni | ||
Azerbaijani dəqiq | ||
Bambara o yɛrɛ | ||
Basque zehatza | ||
Belarusian дакладна | ||
Bengali হুবহু | ||
Bhojpuri सटीक | ||
Bosnian tačno | ||
Bulgarian точно | ||
Catalan exacte | ||
Cebuano eksakto | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 精确 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 精確 | ||
Corsican esatta | ||
Croatian točno | ||
Czech přesný | ||
Danish eksakt | ||
Dhivehi ހަމަ އެ | ||
Dogri ऐन | ||
Dutch exact | ||
English exact | ||
Esperanto ĝusta | ||
Estonian täpne | ||
Ewe tututu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) eksakto | ||
Finnish tarkka | ||
French exact | ||
Frisian eksakt | ||
Galician exacto | ||
Georgian ზუსტი | ||
German genau | ||
Greek ακριβής | ||
Guarani ha'ete | ||
Gujarati ચોક્કસ | ||
Haitian Creole egzak | ||
Hausa daidai | ||
Hawaiian kikoʻī | ||
Hebrew מְדוּיָק | ||
Hindi सटीक | ||
Hmong pes tsawg | ||
Hungarian pontos | ||
Icelandic nákvæmlega | ||
Igbo kpom kwem | ||
Ilocano eksakto | ||
Indonesian tepat | ||
Irish cruinn | ||
Italian esatto | ||
Japanese 正確 | ||
Javanese pas | ||
Kannada ನಿಖರ | ||
Kazakh дәл | ||
Khmer ពិតប្រាកដ | ||
Kinyarwanda neza | ||
Konkani अचूक | ||
Korean 정확한 | ||
Krio sem | ||
Kurdish tam | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) تەواو | ||
Kyrgyz так | ||
Lao ຄືກັນອ້ອຍຕ້ອຍ | ||
Latin exiges | ||
Latvian precīzi | ||
Lingala bongo | ||
Lithuanian tiksli | ||
Luganda kyennyini | ||
Luxembourgish genau | ||
Macedonian точни | ||
Maithili सटीक | ||
Malagasy marina | ||
Malay tepat | ||
Malayalam കൃത്യം | ||
Maltese eżatt | ||
Maori tino | ||
Marathi अचूक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯞ ꯆꯥꯕ | ||
Mizo chiah chiah | ||
Mongolian яг нарийн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အတိအကျ | ||
Nepali ठिक | ||
Norwegian nøyaktig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chimodzimodzi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସଠିକ୍ | ||
Oromo ijasee | ||
Pashto دقیقا | ||
Persian دقیق | ||
Polish dokładny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) exato | ||
Punjabi ਬਿਲਕੁਲ | ||
Quechua chiqa | ||
Romanian corect | ||
Russian точный | ||
Samoan saʻo | ||
Sanskrit यथार्थ | ||
Scots Gaelic cruinn | ||
Sepedi thwii | ||
Serbian тачно | ||
Sesotho hantle | ||
Shona chaizvo | ||
Sindhi صحيح | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හරියටම | ||
Slovak presne | ||
Slovenian natančno | ||
Somali sax ah | ||
Spanish exacto | ||
Sundanese pas | ||
Swahili halisi | ||
Swedish exakt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) eksakto | ||
Tajik дақиқ | ||
Tamil சரியான | ||
Tatar төгәл | ||
Telugu ఖచ్చితమైనది | ||
Thai แน่นอน | ||
Tigrinya ብልክዕ | ||
Tsonga kwatsa | ||
Turkish tam | ||
Turkmen takyk | ||
Twi (Akan) pɛpɛɛpɛ | ||
Ukrainian точний | ||
Urdu عین مطابق | ||
Uyghur ئېنىق | ||
Uzbek aniq | ||
Vietnamese chính xác | ||
Welsh union | ||
Xhosa ngqo | ||
Yiddish פּינטלעך | ||
Yoruba gangan | ||
Zulu ngqo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "presies" (meaning "exact") is closely related to the Dutch word "precies" (also meaning "exact"). |
| Albanian | The word "e saktë" in Albanian derives from the Latin "exactus," meaning "strict, regular, accurate," and also carries the additional meaning of "right" or "correct." |
| Amharic | The word "ትክክለኛ" can also mean "accurate", "correct", or "proper". |
| Arabic | In addition to meaning "exact," "بالضبط" can also mean "certainly" or "indeed." |
| Armenian | "Ճշգրիտ" is of Greek origin, cognate with the word "akrivis" (ακρίβεια) meaning accuracy, precision or meticulousness. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "dəqiq" derives from the Arabic "daqīq" and also carries meanings like precise, specified, and detailed. |
| Basque | "Zehatza" means "accurate" in Basque, derived from "zeha" ("point") indicating "being on point". |
| Belarusian | The word "дакладна", in addition to its primary meaning "exact", can also be translated as "accurate" or "precise". |
| Bengali | হুবহু, meaning "exact" in Bengali, also means to "copy word-for-word"} |
| Bosnian | The word 'tačno' also means 'now' in Bosnian, as a way to emphasize the exact time. |
| Bulgarian | The word “точно”, meaning “exact”, comes from a contraction of the phrase “точ in one”, where “точь” means “same” in Old Slavic. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "exacte" also means "exquisite". |
| Cebuano | It is derived from the Spanish word "exacto" which also means "exact". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 精确,从数学中的“无差错”引申出其他领域的事物“完全符合标准或规律”。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 精確 means "precise" or "accurate" and also means "essence" or "quintessence". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word `esatta` can also mean `precise` or `fine`. |
| Croatian | The word "točno" in Croatian also means "immediately" or "precisely". |
| Czech | The word "přesný" in Czech can also mean "precise", "accurate", or "correct". |
| Danish | The Danish word "eksakt" derives from the Latin word "exactus" meaning "driven out, thrust out" and also refers to a person of exceptional ability, especially in mathematics or natural sciences. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, the word "exact" can also mean "demand" or "request". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word 'ĝusta' can also mean 'fair' or 'proper' |
| Estonian | In Estonian, the word "täpne" also means "precise" and "punctual". |
| Finnish | In Finnish, the word "tarkka" (exact) is also used to describe something that is strict or precise, as in the phrase "tarkka silmä" (a sharp eye). |
| French | In French, "exact" also means "demanding" or "precise". |
| Frisian | Eksakt is also a Frisian surname that originated as a Frisianized form of the patronymic name Exakts, meaning "son of Exactus". |
| Galician | In Galician, "exacto" can also mean "precise time" or "precise place". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "ზუსტი" ("exact") likely traces its origins to Persian "دوسی" (du(v)si) meaning "two eyes" |
| German | The word "genau" is also used in German to mean "precisely" or "specifically". |
| Greek | The word 'ακριβής' is derived from the Greek preposition 'από' (from) and the noun 'κρίσις' (judgment). Its original meaning was 'chosen from among' or 'selected,' hence 'accurate' or 'exact' |
| Gujarati | Also means 'specific', 'definite', or 'certain'. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "egzak" is derived from the French word "exact" and also denotes "precise" or "well-defined". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "daidai" also means "completely" or "completely finished." |
| Hawaiian | In the Hawaiian language, the word "kikoʻī" means "exact, accurate, or precise" but also refers to the smallest unit of Hawaiian measure. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word מְדוּיָק (exact) comes from the root ד-ו-ק, meaning 'to pierce' or 'to strike' and is used in the Talmud to refer to a precise measurement. |
| Hindi | The word "सटीक" (exact) is derived from the Sanskrit word "सत्" (sat), meaning "true" or "real". |
| Hmong | The word 'pes tsawg' in Hmong can also mean 'right' or 'correct' in the sense of being in accordance with a standard or expectation. |
| Hungarian | Pontos is also a verb, that means "to go to something or someone, to approach, to advance." |
| Icelandic | The word 'nákvæmlega' originally meant 'precisely', while its current meaning of 'exactly' is actually a secondary development. |
| Igbo | The Igbo phrase "kpom kwem" also means "without error." |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word tepat also means 'right', 'correct', 'appropriate' or 'suitable'. |
| Irish | It can also be used to mean “fair, just, right”. |
| Italian | "Esatto" can also mean "right" or "correct" in Italian. |
| Japanese | 正確 (seikaku) can also mean "correct" or "accurate" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | "Pas" in Javanese can also mean "right" or "correct". |
| Kannada | ನಿಖರ can also mean "certain" or "sure" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | "Дәл" can also mean "directly" or "straight" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | ពិតប្រាកដ is cognate with the Thai word "จริงประจักษ์" which means "true/real/genuine". |
| Korean | The word 정확한 (exact) comes from the Chinese word 正确, which also means "correct". |
| Kurdish | The term "tam" has roots in Proto-Indo-European "*temh₂-," also the source of English "tame," with the original meaning of "to measure." |
| Kyrgyz | "Так" comes from the Mongolian word "takh", meaning "nail" or "peg", and may also refer to a nail's "head" or the "heel" of a shoe. |
| Lao | The term "ຄືກັນອ້ອຍຕ້ອຍ" is also used figuratively to describe an idea or a thought that is precisely what one had in mind. |
| Latin | Exiges derives from 'exigo,' meaning 'demand' or 'extort,' and can refer to judges in a legal setting as well. |
| Latvian | "precīzi" cognate to Polish "precyzyjny", Czech "precizní", Russian "прецизионный" and English "precise". |
| Lithuanian | In Hungarian, "tiksli" means "accurate" or "precise". The Hungarian word has Hungarian roots and is unrelated to the Lithuanian word, which comes from the Proto-Baltic *teiks-. |
| Luxembourgish | In the Luxembourgish dialect of German, "genau" means "really" or "completely" in addition to its meaning of "exact" in standard German. |
| Macedonian | The word "точни" in Macedonian comes from the Old Church Slavonic "тъчьнъі" and is related to the words from the same root in various Slavic languages such as "точный" (Russian) and "dokładny" (Polish), which all mean "accurate". |
| Malagasy | The root of the Malagasy word marina "exact" is probably the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word *marin "heavy, strong, important". |
| Malay | In Malay, "tepat" also means "correct", "appropriate", "punctual", or "precise". |
| Malayalam | The word "കൃത്യം" in Malayalam can mean both "exact" and "religious ritual or duty" |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "eżatt" also means "just" or "right now" in English. |
| Maori | The word "tino" in Maori also means "very much" and is often used to express emphasis or intensity. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "अचूक" (exact) is derived from the Sanskrit word "च्युति" (to fall), meaning "not falling or erring". |
| Mongolian | The word "яг нарийн" can also mean "very", "precise", or "completely" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The word ठिक means "correct" in English and it is said to be derived from the Sanskrit word "tikshna" meaning "sharp" or "exact". |
| Norwegian | The word "nøyaktig" derives from the Old Norse word "nøgd", meaning "satisfied" or "pleased", and the suffix "-aktig", meaning "like" or "similar". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chimodzimodzi" can also mean "accurate" or "precise". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "دقیقا" can also be used figuratively to mean "really" or "very much." |
| Persian | The word "دقیق" (exact) also means "small" or "tiny" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "dokładny" also means "thorough" or "precise" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "exato" in Portuguese originates from the Latin word "exactus," meaning "precise" or "accurate." |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "corect" also means "correct," stemming from the Latin "correctus," meaning "made straight, set upright, amended." |
| Russian | The word "точный" also means "faithful" or "precise" in Russian. |
| Samoan | In Samoan, the word "saʻo" also means "correct" or "proper." |
| Scots Gaelic | In the 16th century, 'cruinn' was also used in Scots Gaelic to mean 'round'. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "tačno" can also mean "punctually" or "precisely". |
| Sesotho | Hantle does not have any alternate meanings. |
| Shona | "Chaizvo" also refers to an exact amount of money paid in a bridewealth negotiation. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, "صحيح" also means "healthy" or "correct". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "හරියටම" is an amalgamation of the words "හරි" which means "correct" or "right" and "අටම" which means "fixed" or "established." |
| Slovak | The word "presne" comes from the Old Church Slavonic word "prěsně" meaning "straight" or "directly". It is also related to the Latin word "praesens" meaning "present" or "immediate". |
| Slovenian | The word “natančno” can also mean “precise” or “accurate” in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The word "sax ah" can also mean "in fact" or "certainly" in Somali. |
| Spanish | "Exacto" comes from the Latin word "exactus," which also means "regular" or "correct." |
| Sundanese | "Pas" (exact) in Sundanese is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word for "to follow closely, to adhere to, to be accurate or correct" (*pas*). |
| Swahili | In Swahili, 'halisi' can also mean 'genuine', 'real', or 'true', showcasing its multifaceted usage beyond denoting 'exactness. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "exakt" derives from the Latin word "exactus" (past participle of the verb "exigo" meaning "demand" or "drive out"). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "eksakto" can also refer to a musical interval or intonation that is precise or accurate. |
| Tajik | The word "дақиқ" can also mean "minute" or "moment". |
| Tamil | சரியான (sariyaana) literally means "correct or proper" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "sadhya," meaning "that which is to be accomplished." |
| Thai | แน่ (nae) means "to be sure" and นอน (non) means "to sleep." |
| Turkish | Turkish word "tam" is a colloquial loan from Persian "tām" meaning "complete" or "full". |
| Ukrainian | The word "точний" likely originates from "точка" ("dot"), denoting that something is precisely located at a specific point. |
| Urdu | The word "عین مطابق" is derived from the Arabic words "عین" (eye) and "مُطابق" (conforming), and can also mean "identical" or "the same."} |
| Uzbek | The word "aniq" also means "precise" and "accurate" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "chính xác" also means "thorough" or "precise". |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "union" comes from the Latin "unio," meaning "a pearl or gem," and has been used to describe a union of churches or political entities. |
| Xhosa | The word 'ngqo' in Xhosa can also mean 'directly' or 'without hesitation'. |
| Yiddish | פּינטלעך (exact) is related to the German "Punkt" and "Punktlich" which also mean "exact/precise". |
| Yoruba | Gangan is a Yoruba word for 'exact' that also means 'drum' or 'gong' in other contexts. |
| Zulu | "Ngqo" can also be used to mean "just" or "only", as in "ukudla ngqo", which means "to eat (just) food". |
| English | "Exact" derives from the Latin "exactus," meaning "perfect" or "accurate," and also "required" or "extorted." |