Exactly in Different Languages
Discover 'Exactly' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Exactly
Afrikaans presies | ||
Albanian saktësisht | ||
Amharic በትክክል | ||
Arabic بالضبط | ||
Armenian ճիշտ | ||
Assamese ঠিক সেইমতে | ||
Aymara ukhampuni | ||
Azerbaijani tam olaraq | ||
Bambara jaati | ||
Basque zehazki | ||
Belarusian дакладна | ||
Bengali ঠিক | ||
Bhojpuri एकदम | ||
Bosnian upravo | ||
Bulgarian точно | ||
Catalan exactament | ||
Cebuano eksakto | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 究竟 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 究竟 | ||
Corsican esattamente | ||
Croatian točno | ||
Czech přesně tak | ||
Danish nemlig | ||
Dhivehi ކަނޑައެޅިގެން | ||
Dogri बिलकुल स्हेई | ||
Dutch precies | ||
English exactly | ||
Esperanto ĝuste | ||
Estonian täpselt | ||
Ewe tututu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) eksakto | ||
Finnish tarkalleen | ||
French exactement | ||
Frisian krekt | ||
Galician exactamente | ||
Georgian ზუსტად | ||
German genau | ||
Greek ακριβώς | ||
Guarani hesakuaitépe | ||
Gujarati બરાબર | ||
Haitian Creole egzakteman | ||
Hausa daidai | ||
Hawaiian kikoʻī | ||
Hebrew בְּדִיוּק | ||
Hindi बिल्कुल सही | ||
Hmong raws nraim | ||
Hungarian pontosan | ||
Icelandic nákvæmlega | ||
Igbo kpom kwem | ||
Ilocano eksakto | ||
Indonesian persis | ||
Irish díreach | ||
Italian esattamente | ||
Japanese 丁度 | ||
Javanese persis | ||
Kannada ನಿಖರವಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh дәл | ||
Khmer យ៉ាងពិតប្រាកដ | ||
Kinyarwanda neza | ||
Konkani अचूक | ||
Korean 바로 그거죠 | ||
Krio jɔs lɛk | ||
Kurdish tam | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بە تەواوی | ||
Kyrgyz так | ||
Lao ຢ່າງແນ່ນອນ | ||
Latin prorsus | ||
Latvian precīzi | ||
Lingala bongo mpenza | ||
Lithuanian tiksliai | ||
Luganda kyeekyo | ||
Luxembourgish genau | ||
Macedonian точно | ||
Maithili एकदम ठीक | ||
Malagasy izay indrindra | ||
Malay betul-betul | ||
Malayalam കൃത്യമായി | ||
Maltese eżattament | ||
Maori tino | ||
Marathi नक्की | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯞ ꯆꯥꯅ | ||
Mizo chiah | ||
Mongolian яг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အတိအကျ | ||
Nepali ठ्याक्कै | ||
Norwegian nøyaktig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ndendende | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଠିକ୍ | ||
Oromo sirriidhumatti | ||
Pashto بالکل | ||
Persian دقیقا | ||
Polish dokładnie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) exatamente | ||
Punjabi ਬਿਲਕੁਲ | ||
Quechua chiqallan | ||
Romanian exact | ||
Russian в яблочко | ||
Samoan saʻo | ||
Sanskrit यथातथम् | ||
Scots Gaelic dìreach | ||
Sepedi thwii | ||
Serbian баш тако | ||
Sesotho hantle feela | ||
Shona chaizvo | ||
Sindhi بلڪل | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හරියටම | ||
Slovak presne tak | ||
Slovenian natančno | ||
Somali si sax ah | ||
Spanish exactamente | ||
Sundanese leres pisan | ||
Swahili haswa | ||
Swedish exakt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) saktong | ||
Tajik маҳз | ||
Tamil சரியாக | ||
Tatar төгәл | ||
Telugu ఖచ్చితంగా | ||
Thai เป๊ะ | ||
Tigrinya ብልክዕ | ||
Tsonga kwatsa | ||
Turkish kesinlikle | ||
Turkmen takyk | ||
Twi (Akan) pɛpɛɛpɛ | ||
Ukrainian точно | ||
Urdu بالکل | ||
Uyghur ئېنىق | ||
Uzbek aniq | ||
Vietnamese chính xác | ||
Welsh yn union | ||
Xhosa ngokuchanekileyo | ||
Yiddish פּונקט | ||
Yoruba gangan | ||
Zulu ncamashi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans "presies" comes from French "précis" which means "accurate". In English it commonly refers to the precious stones used in jewellery, but can also mean a person's prized possession or something particularly dear to them. |
| Albanian | The word "saktësisht" derives from the Albanian word "sakte", meaning "accurate" or "precise." |
| Amharic | The word "በትክክል" can also mean "truthfully" or "correctly" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "بالضبط" can also mean "on the dot" or "precisely". |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "ճիշտ" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*ḱi-s-to-/""meaning "to cut, separate". |
| Azerbaijani | "Tam" means "full" and "olarak" means "as" in Azerbaijani, so the literal translation of "tam olaraq" is something like "completely as". |
| Basque | Zehazki can also mean "specifically" or "precisely". |
| Belarusian | The word "дакладна" is also used to refer to a written report or statement, especially in a formal or official context. |
| Bengali | The word "ঠিক" also means "correct" or "right". |
| Bosnian | "Upravo" can also mean "in the direction of" as an extension of its comparative definition of "more". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "точно" can also mean "precisely", "certainly". or "for sure". |
| Catalan | Exactament ('exactly') was used in Catalan to mean 'straightly' (straight ahead) in the 16th century. |
| Cebuano | It is derived from the Spanish word "exacto". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "究竟"在古代汉语中指“事情的终了”，后引申为“事情的实际结果或本末”。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 究竟 can also mean 'finally' when used as an adverb. |
| Corsican | "Esattamente" in Corsican is a contraction of "essa attamente", "essa" meaning "this/that" and "attamente" meaning "aptitude; fitness; ability", so that the full meaning is "this aptitude, this ability" |
| Croatian | The word 'točno' also means 'precisely', 'on time', 'definitely' or 'punctually' in Croatian. |
| Czech | Přesně is also a Czech word for "exactly" and tak is "so, thus" and a filler word. |
| Danish | Nemlig can also mean 'namely', a meaning it shares with some of the Indo-European cognates. |
| Dutch | The word "precies" in Dutch is derived from the Old French word "precise", which means "accurate" or "clear". |
| Esperanto | "Ĝuste" in Esperanto is derived from French word "juste" which also has the meaning of "fair" or "right". |
| Estonian | The word "täpselt" is derived from "täpp" (dot) and the suffix "-selt" (in a way), meaning "in a precise manner." |
| Finnish | Tarkalleen is derived from the Finnish word 'tarkka' (accurate, precise), which in turn comes from the Germanic root 'tar' (to take). |
| French | "Exactement" comes from the Latin "ex agere", meaning "to do out" or "to carry out", and also means "just" or "in the same way" in French. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "krekt" is also used in Dutch with the same meaning and is related to the English word "correct". |
| Galician | In Galician, "exactamente" also means "punctually" and "precisely". |
| Georgian | ზუსტად ultimately derives from the French word justesse, meaning correctness or accuracy. |
| German | "Genau" can come from the Middle High German "ebenô" ("equal") or from the Old High German "gagen" ("against"). |
| Greek | The word 'ακριβώς' in Greek can also be used to mean 'thoroughly' or 'precisely'. |
| Gujarati | The word "બરાબર" (barabar) in Gujarati can also mean "equal" or "fair". |
| Haitian Creole | Egzakteman, derived from French "exactement," also means "meticulously" or "in detail." |
| Hausa | Hausa 'daidai,' meaning 'exactly' or 'properly,' shares its etymology with 'gida,' 'food'. So an exact thing is 'foodish' in a sense. |
| Hawaiian | The word "kikoʻī" is also used in Hawaiian to refer to something that is "sharp" or "pointed". |
| Hebrew | Its root verb "בָּדֵק" refers to the checking of coins for their purity and genuineness, which is achieved by comparing them to a precisely weighed standard coin |
| Hindi | बिल्कुल सही is a compound word formed from "बिलकुल" and "सही", whose literal meanings are "completely" and "correct or right". |
| Hmong | "raws nraim" is a reduplicative word that emphasizes the notion of accuracy and precision. |
| Hungarian | The word "pontosan" in Hungarian originally meant "from point to point" and is related to the word "pont" (point). |
| Icelandic | The word "nákvæmlega" can also mean "precisely", "specifically", or "literally". |
| Igbo | "Kpom kwem" in Igbo can also mean "completely" or "thoroughly". |
| Indonesian | "Persis" can also mean "precisely" or "correctly" in Indonesian. |
| Irish | The word "díreach" in Irish holds a wealth of meanings, ranging from physical and metaphorical direction to uprightness and justice. |
| Italian | The word "Esattamente" in Italian shares a common root with the English word "exacte", both deriving from the Latin "exactus" meaning "exact". |
| Japanese | The kanji “丁” also appears in words like 丁稚 (“apprentice”) and 丁半 (“gambling game”), where it denotes a certain kind of order or rank. |
| Javanese | Persis in Javanese can be a polite way to ask for forgiveness or to express deep regret. |
| Kannada | In Kannada, "ನಿಖರವಾಗಿ" is also used to mean "accurately", "precisely", or "thoroughly". |
| Kazakh | "Дәл" is also used to mean "precisely" and as an adverb of affirmation (i.e., yes, that's right). |
| Korean | "바로 그거죠" (literally "that right thing") is commonly used in Korean to express agreement or understanding. |
| Kurdish | In Turkish, "tam" means "full" or "complete", while in Kurdish it means "exactly". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "так" can also mean "such" or "so". |
| Lao | No direct English translation, but it means “very definitely,” “exactly” or “surely”. |
| Latin | "Prorsus" is the Latin equivalent of "completely" and "thoroughly." |
| Latvian | The word "precīzi" is derived from the Latin word "praecīsus," meaning "cut off" or "separated." |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "tiksliai" also has the connotation of "precisely" and "specifically". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "gena" also means "to tease" or "to prank". |
| Macedonian | The word "точно" has other forms in Macedonian: "точа" which is a noun for a grindstone and "точат" which is a masculine noun for someone who sharpens cutting instruments. There is a form of the verb "точам" (точат, точеше, источил) in Macedonian that means "to sharpen a cutting instrument". That verb has a present tense form in Western Macedonian: "точа" which means "to pour (a liquid)" or "to flow". |
| Malagasy | Izay indrindra is an idiom that translates to "exactly", but can also mean "it's exactly" or "that's exactly". |
| Malay | The word "betul-betul" is a reduplication of the Malay word "betul," which means "correct," "proper," or "true." |
| Malayalam | The word 'കൃത്യമായി' in Malayalam derived from the Sanskrit word 'कृत्य' meaning 'duty' or 'task', and also carries the meaning of 'on time' or 'with precision'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word 'eżattament' is derived from the Italian word 'esattamente', which has the same meaning. |
| Maori | The word "tino" also translates to "precisely" and "truthfully" in Māori. |
| Marathi | The word 'नक्की' is derived from the Prakrit word 'नक्ख' meaning 'fixed' or 'definite'. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian term "яг" can also refer to a "notch" or "hollow" in a surface. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | 'အတိ' means 'very' and 'အကျ' means 'thorough' or 'in detail', so altogether it suggests the meaning of 'in great detail' or 'very precisely'. |
| Nepali | "ठ्याक्कै" is the Nepali word for "exactly" that originally meant "with full force", stemming from "ठैँच्न" (to stab), and was later extended to mean "in perfect agreement" due to its sound. |
| Norwegian | The word "nøyaktig" in Norwegian comes from the Old Norse word "nøyaktigr," meaning "accurate" or "precise." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Ndenende can also mean "without doubt" |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "بالکل" also means "completely" or "thoroughly" in English. |
| Persian | "دقیقا" means "exactly", "accurately", "precisely", "right", or "literally" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "dokładnie" can also mean "thoroughly" or "completely". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Exatamente" is a synonym for "truly" or "indeed" in Portuguese. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਬਿਲਕੁਲ" can also mean "all in all" or "altogether" in the sense of "completely" or "thoroughly". |
| Romanian | In Romanian the word "exact" means both "accurate" as well as "demanding or harsh". |
| Russian | Its original meaning was "to hit the bullseye in archery", from the word "яблоко" (apple), which was the name of the central circle on an archery target. |
| Samoan | The word "saʻo" is also used to mean "right" or "correct" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "dìreach" in Scots Gaelic can also mean "straight" or "direct". |
| Serbian | The word "баш тако" also means "completely" or "thoroughly" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The phrase 'hantle feela' is made up of the Sesotho words 'hantle' (abundant) and 'feela' (many), and is often used colloquially to express the idea of 'precisely'. |
| Shona | The word 'chaizvo' is derived from the Proto-Bantu root '-tsew-', meaning 'to be true'. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "بلڪل" comes from the Sanskrit word "बलकल" (bark, skin, or exterior) |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word 'හරියටම' in Sinhala (Sinhalese) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'हरित', meaning 'green' or 'fresh'. |
| Slovak | Presne tak's literal translation is 'closely thus', suggesting a close proximity or alignment. |
| Slovenian | The word “natančno” originally meant “to fix a date or a deadline for something” in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The word "si sax ah" can also be used to mean "just as it should be" or "precisely." |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "exacto" derives from "exigere" in Latin, meaning to demand or require precision. |
| Sundanese | "Leres pisan" is a Sundanese idiom that literally means "exactly crushed" and implies thoroughness or precision. |
| Swahili | The word "haswa" in Swahili, in addition to meaning "exactly", can also refer to a kind of small boat. |
| Swedish | The word 'exakt' is derived from the Latin word 'exactus', meaning 'accurate' or 'precise'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The root word "sakto" means "correct" or "accurate", while the suffix "-ng" denotes a state or condition, thus "saktong" means "in the correct state" or "precisely". |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "маҳз" (exactly) is derived from Old Persian, where it meant"pure, very, quite, merely." |
| Tamil | The word "சரியாக" can also mean "properly" or "in good order". |
| Telugu | "ఖచ్చితంగా" is thought to come from the Sanskrit "kakshita," which can also mean "firm" or "strong." |
| Thai | The word "เป๊ะ" is an onomatopoeia derived from the sound of a bell. |
| Turkish | Kesinlikle is derived from the Arabic word qaṭʿan (قطعا), meaning 'definitely' or 'certainly'. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "точно" derives from the Proto-Slavic root *tokъ, meaning "so," "thus," or "the same." |
| Urdu | Urdu phrase ‘بالکل’ literally means 'the whole of' or 'complete' and can be used in a variety of contexts beyond its literal meaning. |
| Uzbek | The word "aniq" also means "specifically" and "clearly" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | Chính xác is derived from the Chinese word 正确 (zhèngquè), meaning 'correct' or 'accurate'. |
| Welsh | The word 'yn union' literally means 'in unity'. |
| Xhosa | The word "ngokuchanekileyo" is often used as a reply to confirm, assert or deny something and derives from "ngoku" (now) and "chanekile" (it has happened). |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, the word "פּונקט" also means "dot" or "period", reflecting its role as a marking sign. |
| Yoruba | In Yorùbá, "gangan" has alternate meanings including "certainly, by all means, and truly" |
| Zulu | The Zulu phrase "ncamashi" can also mean "indeed" in English. |
| English | Exactly derives from the Late Latin 'exacte' and was originally an adverb meaning 'in accordance with rule or custom'. |