Afrikaans oor die algemeen | ||
Albanian përgjithësisht | ||
Amharic በአጠቃላይ | ||
Arabic عموما | ||
Armenian ընդհանրապես | ||
Assamese সাধাৰণতে | ||
Aymara jilpachaxa | ||
Azerbaijani ümumiyyətlə | ||
Bambara bakurubala | ||
Basque orokorrean | ||
Belarusian наогул | ||
Bengali সাধারণত | ||
Bhojpuri आम तौर पर | ||
Bosnian generalno | ||
Bulgarian в общи линии | ||
Catalan en general | ||
Cebuano sa kinatibuk-an | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 通常 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 通常 | ||
Corsican in generale | ||
Croatian općenito | ||
Czech obvykle | ||
Danish generelt | ||
Dhivehi އާންމުގޮތެއްގައި | ||
Dogri आमतौर पर | ||
Dutch over het algemeen | ||
English generally | ||
Esperanto ĝenerale | ||
Estonian üldiselt | ||
Ewe gbadzaa | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pangkalahatan | ||
Finnish yleisesti | ||
French généralement | ||
Frisian meastal | ||
Galician xeralmente | ||
Georgian საერთოდ | ||
German allgemein | ||
Greek γενικά | ||
Guarani tuichaháicha | ||
Gujarati સામાન્ય રીતે | ||
Haitian Creole jeneralman | ||
Hausa gaba ɗaya | ||
Hawaiian laulā | ||
Hebrew בדרך כלל | ||
Hindi आम तौर पर | ||
Hmong feem ntau | ||
Hungarian általában | ||
Icelandic almennt | ||
Igbo n'ozuzu | ||
Ilocano iti sapasap | ||
Indonesian umumnya | ||
Irish go ginearálta | ||
Italian in genere | ||
Japanese 一般的に | ||
Javanese umume | ||
Kannada ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh жалпы | ||
Khmer ជាទូទៅ | ||
Kinyarwanda muri rusange | ||
Konkani सामान्यपणान | ||
Korean 일반적으로 | ||
Krio bɔku tɛm | ||
Kurdish giştîve | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەگشتی | ||
Kyrgyz жалпысынан | ||
Lao ໂດຍທົ່ວໄປ | ||
Latin fere | ||
Latvian vispārīgi | ||
Lingala mbala mingi | ||
Lithuanian apskritai | ||
Luganda okwaaliza awamu | ||
Luxembourgish allgemeng | ||
Macedonian генерално | ||
Maithili सामान्यतः | ||
Malagasy ankapobeny | ||
Malay amnya | ||
Malayalam സാധാരണയായി | ||
Maltese ġeneralment | ||
Maori tikanga | ||
Marathi सामान्यत: | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯌꯥꯝꯕ ꯃꯇꯝꯗ | ||
Mizo tlangpuiin | ||
Mongolian ерөнхийдөө | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ယေဘုယျအားဖြင့် | ||
Nepali साधारणतया | ||
Norwegian som regel | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zambiri | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସାଧାରଣତ। | | ||
Oromo akka waliigalaatti | ||
Pashto عموما | ||
Persian بطور کلی | ||
Polish ogólnie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) geralmente | ||
Punjabi ਆਮ ਤੌਰ 'ਤੇ | ||
Quechua yaqa sapa kuti | ||
Romanian în general | ||
Russian в общем-то | ||
Samoan masani | ||
Sanskrit सामान्यतया | ||
Scots Gaelic san fharsaingeachd | ||
Sepedi ka kakaretšo | ||
Serbian обично | ||
Sesotho ka kakaretso | ||
Shona kazhinji | ||
Sindhi عام طور تي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සාමාන්යයෙන් | ||
Slovak všeobecne | ||
Slovenian na splošno | ||
Somali guud ahaan | ||
Spanish generalmente | ||
Sundanese umumna | ||
Swahili kwa ujumla | ||
Swedish rent generellt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sa pangkalahatan | ||
Tajik умуман | ||
Tamil பொதுவாக | ||
Tatar гомумән | ||
Telugu సాధారణంగా | ||
Thai โดยทั่วไป | ||
Tigrinya ብሓፈሻ | ||
Tsonga angarhela | ||
Turkish genel olarak | ||
Turkmen köplenç | ||
Twi (Akan) daa daa | ||
Ukrainian загалом | ||
Urdu عام طور پر | ||
Uyghur ئادەتتە | ||
Uzbek umuman | ||
Vietnamese nói chung là | ||
Welsh yn gyffredinol | ||
Xhosa ngokubanzi | ||
Yiddish בכלל | ||
Yoruba gbogbogbo | ||
Zulu ngokuvamile |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "oor die algemeen" can also mean "on the average" or "as a rule". |
| Amharic | በአጠቃላይ (bä-aṭäqalay) is derived from the root አጠቀለ (aṭäqälä) meaning "to gather, collect" and can also mean "on the whole, overall". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "عموما" has origins in the Semitic root for "wholeness" and can also mean "on the whole" or "as a rule." |
| Azerbaijani | "Ümumiyyətlə" sözünün kökeni Arapça'daki "ümm" sözcüğüne dayanır ve "anne" veya "temel" anlamlarına gelir. |
| Basque | In some areas of Labourd, it also means 'in the daytime' |
| Belarusian | The word "наогул" can also mean "in general" or "on the whole". |
| Bengali | সাধারণত' is often used with the word 'বিশ্ব' (world) to refer to the common people or ordinary people. |
| Bosnian | Bosnian "generalno" (generally) comes from the Proto-Slavic word "genaralije" (generalia), meaning "common things" or "main points". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian phrase "в общи линии" literally translates to "in general lines". |
| Catalan | Catalan "en general" also means "in general" but is more literally "in general terms". |
| Cebuano | Sa kinatibuk-an also means "as a whole" or "on the whole". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 通常 also means customary |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "通常" (generally) can also refer to "regular" or "normal" in Chinese (Traditional). |
| Corsican | In Corsica 'in generale' can also be used to mean 'in particular'. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "općenito" is a cognate of the Serbian word "opšte", which are both derived from an Old Church Slavonic word meaning "common" or "general". |
| Czech | "Obvykle" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "obyčajĭ", which can also mean "habit" or "custom." |
| Danish | In Norwegian, "generelt" can also mean "completely" or "in general", and "general" or "universal" in French. |
| Dutch | Het woord "over het algemeen" stamt af van het Proto-Germaanse "ubir", wat "over" of "boven" betekent, en het Proto-Germaanse "gala", wat "heel" of "alles" betekent. |
| Esperanto | ĝenerale is a compound word, consisting of ĝenera 'gender' and -e 'adjective ending' |
| Estonian | Üldiselt shares its root word, üldise, with 'üldine', meaning 'general', but means 'generally speaking' rather than 'in general', and therefore is a type of adverb. |
| Finnish | The word yleisesti is derived from the word yleinen, which means 'common' or 'public' |
| French | Généralement comes from the Latin "generalis," meaning "of the whole," and shares a root with "generate" and "genus." |
| Frisian | The word "meastal" can also mean "mostly" or "for the most part" in Frisian. |
| Galician | The word "xeralmente" in Galician comes from the Latin "generalis", meaning "of or belonging to a genus". |
| Georgian | საერთოდ can also mean "at all" or "never" in Georgian, depending on the context. |
| German | The noun form 'Allgemeinheit' (generality) denotes the 'general public', the pronoun form 'alle' (all, every) means 'everyone'. |
| Greek | Γενικά also means 'species,' 'sex,' and 'race' in the context of biology. |
| Gujarati | "સામાન્ય રીતે" is used to refer to something that happens in a typical way or according to the usual pattern. |
| Haitian Creole | In Standard Haitian Creole, "jeneralman" means "generally" or "usually". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "gaba ɗaya" is derived from two separate words, "gaba" meaning "front" and "ɗaya" meaning "one". |
| Hawaiian | Laulā originated as a word specifically used to describe weaving mats (lau = leaf, lā = sun). |
| Hebrew | בדרך כלל is a shortened form of בדי דרך כלל, which translates as "in the way usually". It does not refer to any "rule" but merely states that something is the way it usually is. |
| Hindi | "आम तौर पर" का अर्थ "सामान्य रूप से" या "अक्सर" भी हो सकता है। |
| Hmong | "Feem ntau" also means "in general" and is used to express the idea of "usually" or "on average". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "általában" also means "usually" or "customarily". |
| Icelandic | The word "almennt" also means "ordinary" or "common" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | N'ozuzu is also used to refer to a person who is very good at something. |
| Indonesian | The term "umumnya" in Indonesian is a loanword from Arabic "'umuman" which originally means "universally" but has shifted over time to mean "generally." |
| Irish | The word "go ginearálta" can also mean "in general terms" or "overall". |
| Italian | The Latin phrase "in genere" has also been used in Italian to mean "in the genre". |
| Japanese | 一般的に is derived from the Chinese word for “common,” and was originally used to refer to something that was not uncommon or unusual. |
| Javanese | "Umum" can have two other meanings, which are similar depending on the context, namely "many" and "all". |
| Kazakh | The word "жалпы" also means "the world" or "the universe" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The word "ជាទូទៅ" can also mean "in general" or "as a rule" in Khmer. |
| Korean | "일반적으로" can also mean "in general" or "broadly speaking" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word "giştîve" is derived from the Kurdish root "gişt", meaning "world", and the suffix "-îve", indicating "in general" or "as a whole". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жалпысынан" in Kyrgyz can also mean "in general" or "completely". |
| Lao | In the past, this word referred to "the whole group" of people and was a way of showing respect to the group. |
| Latin | Fere may also mean nearly, almost, or approximately. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "vispārīgi" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*gʰens-/*gʰnes-**, meaning "together" or "in common", also found in words such as "general" and "genus" in English. |
| Lithuanian | The word "apskritai" originates from the Proto-Baltic word "*skrītas", meaning "separated" or "different". It is related to the Lithuanian word "skirti", meaning "to distinguish" or "to separate". |
| Macedonian | The word "генерално" can also be used to mean "completely" or "totally". |
| Malagasy | The word "ankapobeny" can also be used to refer to a "commoner". |
| Malay | In colloquial speech, amnya may be used in conjunction with words like boleh or tidak for added emphasis, e.g., amnya boleh = "definitely may" |
| Malayalam | The word "സാധാരണയായി" derives from the Sanskrit word "साधारण" meaning "usual" or "most common", and is used in Malayalam to denote something that is typically the case or that happens most of the time. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "ġeneralment" comes from the Italian word "generalmente", which is derived from the Latin word "generalis", meaning "general". |
| Maori | Tikanga can also mean "correct practice" or "customary usage". |
| Marathi | "सामान्यत:" comes from "सामान्य" (common) and "त:" (suffix indicating a general state or condition). |
| Mongolian | The word can be translated as "on the whole", "in general", or "generally". |
| Nepali | "साधारणतया" (sādhāraṇatayā): from "साधारण" (sādhāraṇ) meaning "common" and "तया" (tayā), a suffix indicating manner. |
| Norwegian | "Som regel" means "generally" in Norwegian, but it literally translates to "as a rule". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word can also mean 'everything' in the negative sense of 'everything is over' and 'everything is finished'. |
| Pashto | عموما is cognate with the Persian word عموما which means "completely" or "thoroughly". |
| Persian | "بطور کلی" means "in some ways" in Persian |
| Polish | In Polish, "ogólnie" also means "overall" or "in general terms". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Portuguese "geralmente" is derived from Latin "generalis" („common to all‟), related to "genus" („kind, race‟). |
| Romanian | The Romanian "în general" also means "at the wholesale". |
| Russian | In Russian, "в общем-то" does not only mean "generally" but also "actually" or "all in all". |
| Samoan | The word "masani" can also mean "always" or "every time". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "san fharsaingeachd" was first recorded around 1425 in a Gaelic poem as a synonym for "usually". |
| Serbian | In Serbo-Croatian, "obično" can also mean "usually" or "customarily" rather than "generally" or "in general". |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word 'ka kakaretso' originally meant 'on all fours' and is related to the word 'kgare', which means 'to crawl'. |
| Shona | The word "kazhinji" is derived from the root "ka" (to be) and "zhinji" (many), and can also mean "majority" or "most". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word 'සාමාන්යයෙන්' can also mean 'usually' or 'normally', indicating a habitual or customary action or occurrence. |
| Slovak | Originally, "všeobecne" meant "commonly" or "ordinarily". |
| Slovenian | The phrase 'na splošno' originated from the Old Slavic phrase "na obьšče", which literally means "in common". |
| Spanish | The adverb "generalmente" in Spanish also means "usually" |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, 'umumna' also refers to 'common people'. |
| Swahili | The term "kwa ujumla" is also used in formal contexts to denote broad principles or general concepts. |
| Swedish | The word "rent" in Swedish can also mean "pure" or "clear" in some contexts. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Sa pangkalahatan" in Tagalog not only means "generally" but can also mean "on average". |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "умуман" has an alternative meaning as "approximately". |
| Tamil | "பொதுவாக" in Tamil is also used to mean "in a social gathering" or "in the presence of others." |
| Thai | โดยทั่วไป is often used as a noun, meaning "general information" or "common knowledge". |
| Turkish | In Ottoman Turkish, "genel olarak" could also mean "publicly". |
| Ukrainian | The word "загалом" in Ukrainian can mean "generally" but is also the plural of "загал," meaning "public" or "people". |
| Urdu | عام طور پر" (generally) is an Urdu word derived from Arabic, meaning "in most cases" or "as a rule". |
| Uzbek | "Umuman" also means "on the whole" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | Nói chung là is literally translated as “speak commonly” indicating a widely accepted common consensus. |
| Welsh | The word "yn gyffredinol" comes from the Old Welsh "cyffredin", meaning "common". It can also mean "in common", "ordinarily " or "usually." |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ngokubanzi" is a noun meaning "generality" or "in general". |
| Yiddish | " בכלל " is cognate with the Arabic word "كل" (kull), meaning "all" or "completely" in modern Standard Arabic. |
| Yoruba | In some contexts, "gbogbogbo" can also mean "very much" or "thoroughly". |
| Zulu | The word "ngokuvamile" in Zulu is derived from the root "-vam-", meaning "to stretch out" or "to be wide". |
| English | The word "generally" originates from the Latin "generalis," meaning "of a kind" or "common to all." |