Okay in Different Languages
Discover 'Okay' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Okay
Afrikaans okay | ||
Albanian mirë | ||
Amharic እሺ | ||
Arabic حسنا | ||
Armenian լավ | ||
Assamese ঠিক আছে | ||
Aymara waliki | ||
Azerbaijani tamam | ||
Bambara basi tɛ | ||
Basque ados | ||
Belarusian добра | ||
Bengali ঠিক আছে | ||
Bhojpuri ठीक बा | ||
Bosnian u redu | ||
Bulgarian добре | ||
Catalan bé | ||
Cebuano okay ra | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 好的 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 好的 | ||
Corsican va bè | ||
Croatian u redu | ||
Czech dobře | ||
Danish okay | ||
Dhivehi އެންމެ ރަނގަޅު | ||
Dogri ठीक ऐ | ||
Dutch oke | ||
English okay | ||
Esperanto bone | ||
Estonian okei | ||
Ewe enyo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sige | ||
Finnish okei | ||
French d'accord | ||
Frisian okee | ||
Galician vale | ||
Georgian კარგი | ||
German in ordnung | ||
Greek εντάξει | ||
Guarani néi | ||
Gujarati બરાબર | ||
Haitian Creole oke | ||
Hausa lafiya | ||
Hawaiian maikaʻi | ||
Hebrew בסדר | ||
Hindi ठीक है | ||
Hmong xyua | ||
Hungarian oké | ||
Icelandic allt í lagi | ||
Igbo dịkwa mma | ||
Ilocano mayat | ||
Indonesian baik | ||
Irish ceart go leor | ||
Italian va bene | ||
Japanese はい | ||
Javanese nggih | ||
Kannada ಸರಿ | ||
Kazakh жақсы | ||
Khmer យល់ព្រម | ||
Kinyarwanda sawa | ||
Konkani बरें आसा | ||
Korean 괜찮아 | ||
Krio ok | ||
Kurdish baş e | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) باشە | ||
Kyrgyz болуптур | ||
Lao ບໍ່ເປັນຫຍັງ | ||
Latin bene | ||
Latvian labi | ||
Lingala malamu | ||
Lithuanian gerai | ||
Luganda kaale | ||
Luxembourgish okay | ||
Macedonian добро | ||
Maithili ठीक छै | ||
Malagasy okay | ||
Malay baik | ||
Malayalam ശരി | ||
Maltese okay | ||
Maori pai | ||
Marathi ठीक आहे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯣꯀꯦ | ||
Mizo a tha e | ||
Mongolian за | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အိုကေ | ||
Nepali ल | ||
Norwegian greit | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chabwino | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଠିକ ଅଛି | ||
Oromo tole | ||
Pashto سمه ده | ||
Persian باشه | ||
Polish w porządku | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) ok | ||
Punjabi ਠੀਕ ਹੈ | ||
Quechua kusa | ||
Romanian bine | ||
Russian хорошо | ||
Samoan ua lelei | ||
Sanskrit अस्तु | ||
Scots Gaelic ceart gu leor | ||
Sepedi go lokile | ||
Serbian у реду | ||
Sesotho ho lokile | ||
Shona zvakanaka | ||
Sindhi ٺيڪ آهي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හරි හරී | ||
Slovak dobre | ||
Slovenian v redu | ||
Somali okay | ||
Spanish bueno | ||
Sundanese oké | ||
Swahili sawa | ||
Swedish okej | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sige | ||
Tajik хуб | ||
Tamil சரி | ||
Tatar ярар | ||
Telugu సరే | ||
Thai ตกลง | ||
Tigrinya እሺ | ||
Tsonga swi lulamile | ||
Turkish tamam | ||
Turkmen bolýar | ||
Twi (Akan) yoo | ||
Ukrainian добре | ||
Urdu ٹھیک ہے | ||
Uyghur ماقۇل | ||
Uzbek xop | ||
Vietnamese được chứ | ||
Welsh iawn | ||
Xhosa kulungile | ||
Yiddish אקעי | ||
Yoruba dara | ||
Zulu kulungile |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "okay" in Afrikaans also means "all right" or "very well." |
| Albanian | "Mirë" can also mean "good" or "well" in Albanian. |
| Amharic | The word "እሺ" ("okay") is derived from the Ge'ez verb "አካ" ("to be right") and has alternate meanings such as "correct" and "true". |
| Arabic | In some Arab dialects, “حسنا” also means “very well” or “excellent.” |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "լավ" (okay) is also used to express "good". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "tamam" in Azerbaijani comes from the Turkish word "tamam", meaning "complete" or "perfect", and is used to express agreement or completion of a task. |
| Basque | Also spelled “adoz,” comes from the French “à deux” or “two at a time,” and denotes that something should be done together. |
| Belarusian | The word "добра" (okay) in Belarusian is derived from the Old Belarusian word "добро" (good), and it can also mean "good" or "well" in a general sense. |
| Bengali | "ঠিক আছে" can mean "okay," "that's right," or "it's correct," and comes from the words "ঠিক," meaning "correct" or "right," and "আছে," meaning "is" or "exists." |
| Bosnian | Uredu originally means "in order" in Bosnian, and is only an affirmative response in certain contexts. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgaria, "добре" is also a common way to express "hello" or, more formally, "good afternoon". |
| Catalan | The word "bé" in Catalan has a more literal meaning of "good" or "well" and can also be used as a noun to refer to goods or property. |
| Cebuano | The phrase is thought to derive from the English "O.K." (an abbreviation of "oll korrekt") or "okay" via Chinese. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 好的 means "okay" in Chinese but it is also used as a verb to indicate agreement or acceptance. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "好的" means "okay" in Chinese, but the word literally means "it is good" or "it is well". |
| Corsican | "Va bè" in Corsican shares the same etymology with "va bene" in Italian and means "good" or "well". |
| Croatian | The phrase 'u redu' is thought to have originated from the German phrase 'in Ordnung', meaning 'in order' or 'correct'. |
| Czech | The Czech word "dobře" also means "well" or "good" and can be used as an adverb, adjective, or interjection. |
| Danish | In Danish, “okay” means “also”, can be used as an alternative “yes” or “alright” and is written “okay”. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "oke" is derived from the French word "aux quois" which means "to the what" and was used to express incomprehension. |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "bone" is derived from the Latin "bono" (good) and has various meanings including "well-being" and "excellence." |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "okei" is a loanword from English "okay", which itself originates from US African American Vernacular English. |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "Okei" does not have a specific etymology, nor does it have alternate meanings. |
| French | While 'd'accord' literally translates to 'in agreement' or 'in accordance', it is generally used in spoken French to mean 'okay'. |
| Frisian | Okee is a Frisian word that can also mean 'uncle'. |
| Galician | In Galician, "vale" can also refer to a low-lying area or valley, originating from the Latin word "vallis" |
| Georgian | The word "კარგი" can also mean "good" or "pleasant" in Georgian. |
| German | German "in Ordnung" derives from older "an Ordnung", meaning "in the right order". |
| Greek | The Greek word |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "બરાબર" comes from the Sanskrit root "vṛdha", meaning "to increase", and literally means "proper" or "equal". |
| Haitian Creole | The word “oke”, which translates to “okay” in English, can also mean “yes” and “understood”in Haitian Creole |
| Hausa | "Lafiya" in Hausa also means "health, physical well-being". |
| Hawaiian | "Maikaʻi" also means "good" and is commonly used as a compliment to express approval or satisfaction. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word בסדר (b'seder) is an abbreviation of the Aramaic phrase 'bishlam u'vtuv', meaning 'peacefully and well'. |
| Hindi | ठीक है is a corruption of the English phrase “all correct,” introduced during the British colonial era. |
| Hmong | "Xyua" is also the name of a musical instrument played by Hmong people. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "oké" can also mean "that's fine" or "all right". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic phrase "allt í lagi" has roots in the Old Norse language, where "allt" means "everything" and "í lagi" means "in order", conveying a sense of "everything is in its rightful place". |
| Igbo | The word "dịkwa mma" in Igbo language can also mean "it is well" or "there is peace". |
| Indonesian | Baik can also mean 'nice' or 'kind' in Indonesian, and can be used in place of 'yes' when agreeing to something. |
| Irish | "Ceart go leor" is the Irish translation of the English phrase "right enough," which is used to express agreement or acceptance. |
| Italian | Va bene is the Italian version of the French "ça va bien" or "it's going well" |
| Japanese | "Hai" is often used in Japanese to mean "yes", but it can also mean "here" or "present". |
| Javanese | "Nggih" is also used as an acknowledgment or affirmation, and can be roughly translated as "I understand" or "I will do it." |
| Kannada | ಸರಿ (sari) in Kannada can also mean 'straight', 'proper', or 'right' |
| Kazakh | The word "Жақсы" can also mean "good", "well", "nice", or "beautiful" in Kazakh. |
| Korean | The word "괜찮아" has its roots in the Middle Korean word "괜스시오", which was made up of "괜스" (well-being or ease) and the honorific suffix "-시오". The word's meaning can extend to encompass "it's all right" or "I'm fine." |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "baş e" originates from the Persian phrase of the same pronunciation ("bāš", "bash"), meaning "it would be". |
| Kyrgyz | "Болуптур" also means "It will be" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | Derived from Latin "benus," meaning "good" or "well," "bene" has been used since the Renaissance as an adverbial expression indicating assent or approval, particularly in academic discussions. |
| Latvian | The word "Labi" is only ever used in certain regions of Latvia, and is said to have originated from Polish during the partition of Poland, while some claim it comes from French |
| Lithuanian | The word "Gerai" in Lithuanian is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰer- meaning "to hold" or "to grasp". It has the same root as the English word "guarantee". |
| Luxembourgish | The phrase "ochkei" is often used colloquially in Luxembourgish to express agreement, similar to "okay" in English. |
| Macedonian | The word "добро" in Macedonian can also mean "good" or "property." |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "okay" is a loanword from English and has the same meaning. |
| Malay | The word "baik" in Malay is cognate with the word "baik" in Javanese, meaning "good" or "well". |
| Malayalam | The word "ശരി" in Malayalam also means "correct" or "true". |
| Maltese | "Okay" is an exclamation meaning "good" in Maltese, and it can also mean "good" in other languages like French and English. |
| Maori | The word "pai" in Māori also means "good" or "correct". |
| Marathi | The word 'ठीक आहे' is derived from the Hindi phrase 'ठीक है', which means 'all right' or 'correct'. |
| Mongolian | The word 'за' is also used to express agreement, understanding, or permission. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | အိုကေ is derived from the English phrase "all correct", and can also mean "very well" or "agreeable". |
| Nepali | The word 'ल' in Nepali is derived from the Sanskrit word 'लम्' or 'लभ', meaning 'to take' or 'to receive'. In this sense, the word is used to indicate agreement or acceptance. |
| Norwegian | Greit can also mean "ready" or "straight". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "Chabwino" in Nyanja is derived from the verb "chaba" (to be nice, good), and is also used to express agreement or assent. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "سمه ده" is also related to the Persian word "صحیح" and the Arabic word "صحيح" which mean "correct" or "right". |
| Persian | The word "باشه" can also mean "it will be" or "let it be" in Persian. |
| Polish | The phrase literally translates to ‘in order’ and has the same meaning in Czech and Slovak. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "OK" can be written with the letter "K" instead of "C" (O.K.). |
| Romanian | Bine is also an archaic term for "good". |
| Russian | "Хорошо" in Russian is derived from "хороший" meaning "good" and was used in the past as a greeting. |
| Samoan | Ua lelei, meaning "it is good", can also be used to express assent or approval. |
| Scots Gaelic | The phrase 'Ceart gu leor' translates as 'fairly right', and is used in Scots Gaelic to indicate assent. |
| Serbian | The word "у реду" is the Serbian equivalent of "okay," but can also be used to mean "in a row" or "in order". |
| Sesotho | The phrase "ho lokile" derives from the Sesotho word "loka", meaning "to be right" or "to be correct." |
| Shona | Zvakanaka can also mean "it is nice" or "it is good". |
| Sindhi | ٺيڪ آهي (thik ahe) is an expression in Sindhi that can also mean "that's right" or "correct". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhalese, the word "හරි හරී" can also mean "all right" or "very well." |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "dobre" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *dobro, meaning "good" or "well". While it retains this meaning in many Slavic languages, in Slovak it has shifted to mean "okay" or "alright". |
| Slovenian | The phrase "v redu" can also mean "in order" or "in a row" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | OK is probably a back-formation or a blend of Old Kinderhook, which is often said to have been used by Martin Van Buren, the eighth US President from Kinderhook, New York. |
| Spanish | The word "bueno" in Spanish can also mean "good" or "kind". |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "Oké" ultimately derives from an Arabic interjection meaning "well" or "all right". |
| Swahili | The word "sawa" in Swahili can also mean "correct", "right", or "agree". |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "okej" can also mean "a yoke for oxen" or "a yoke for pigs". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "sige" in Tagalog can also mean "to continue" or "to go on". |
| Tajik | "Хуб" also has other meanings such as "like" and "very". |
| Tamil | The word "சரி" (okay) in Tamil can also mean "correct". |
| Telugu | The word "సరే" also means "good" or "alright" in Telugu. |
| Thai | The word "ตกลง" is derived from the Sanskrit word "तर्क" (tarka), which means "argument" or "logical reasoning." |
| Turkish | "Tamam" can also mean "complete" or "finished" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The word "добре" can also mean "good" or "well" in Ukrainian, depending on the context. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "xop" is derived from the Persian word "khob," which also means "good" or "well." |
| Vietnamese | In the Northern variety of Vietnamese or colloquial contexts, "Được chứ" can also imply a reluctant, noncommittal or conditional consent. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "iawn" is derived from the Latin "ējamus", meaning "let us go". |
| Xhosa | Kulungile in Xhosa can also mean 'it is good' or 'it is right'. |
| Yiddish | The word "אקעי" ("okay") in Yiddish is likely derived from the English phrase "O.K." |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "dara" also means "good" or "nice". |
| Zulu | Kulungile also means 'proper' and has cognates in other Nguni languages. |
| English | The word "okay" is thought to have originated from the Wolof phrase "waw kay", meaning "it is so". |