Sure in Different Languages
Discover 'Sure' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Sure
Afrikaans seker | ||
Albanian i sigurt | ||
Amharic እርግጠኛ | ||
Arabic بالتأكيد | ||
Armenian հաստատ | ||
Assamese নিশ্চয় | ||
Aymara sijuru | ||
Azerbaijani mütləq | ||
Bambara jaati | ||
Basque ziur | ||
Belarusian упэўнены | ||
Bengali নিশ্চিত | ||
Bhojpuri पक्का | ||
Bosnian naravno | ||
Bulgarian сигурен | ||
Catalan segur | ||
Cebuano sigurado | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 当然 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 當然 | ||
Corsican sicuru | ||
Croatian naravno | ||
Czech tak určitě | ||
Danish jo da | ||
Dhivehi ޔަޤީން | ||
Dogri निश्चत | ||
Dutch zeker | ||
English sure | ||
Esperanto certe | ||
Estonian kindel | ||
Ewe ka ɖe edzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sigurado | ||
Finnish varma | ||
French sûr | ||
Frisian wis | ||
Galician seguro | ||
Georgian დარწმუნებულია | ||
German sicher | ||
Greek σίγουρος | ||
Guarani upeichaite | ||
Gujarati ખાતરી કરો | ||
Haitian Creole asire w | ||
Hausa tabbata | ||
Hawaiian ʻoiaʻiʻo | ||
Hebrew בטוח | ||
Hindi ज़रूर | ||
Hmong paub tseeb | ||
Hungarian biztos | ||
Icelandic viss | ||
Igbo n'aka | ||
Ilocano sigurado | ||
Indonesian tentu | ||
Irish cinnte | ||
Italian sicuro | ||
Japanese 承知しました | ||
Javanese tenan | ||
Kannada ಖಚಿತವಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh әрине | ||
Khmer ប្រាកដ | ||
Kinyarwanda byanze bikunze | ||
Konkani निश्चीत | ||
Korean 확실한 | ||
Krio shɔ | ||
Kurdish emîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دڵنیا | ||
Kyrgyz сөзсүз | ||
Lao ແນ່ໃຈ | ||
Latin cave | ||
Latvian protams | ||
Lingala solo | ||
Lithuanian tikras | ||
Luganda tewali kubuusabuusa | ||
Luxembourgish sécher | ||
Macedonian сигурно | ||
Maithili निश्चित | ||
Malagasy azo antoka | ||
Malay pasti | ||
Malayalam ഉറപ്പാണ് | ||
Maltese żgur | ||
Maori pono | ||
Marathi नक्की | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯣꯏꯗꯕ | ||
Mizo ngei ngei | ||
Mongolian итгэлтэй байна | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သေချာတယ် | ||
Nepali निश्चित | ||
Norwegian sikker | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zedi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନିଶ୍ଚିତ | ||
Oromo sirrii | ||
Pashto ډاډه | ||
Persian مطمئن | ||
Polish pewnie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) certo | ||
Punjabi ਯਕੀਨਨ | ||
Quechua chiqaq | ||
Romanian sigur | ||
Russian конечно | ||
Samoan mautinoa | ||
Sanskrit निश्चयेन | ||
Scots Gaelic cinnteach | ||
Sepedi kgonthiša | ||
Serbian наравно | ||
Sesotho bonnete | ||
Shona chokwadi | ||
Sindhi پڪ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) විශ්වාසයි | ||
Slovak samozrejme | ||
Slovenian seveda | ||
Somali hubaal | ||
Spanish por supuesto | ||
Sundanese pasti | ||
Swahili hakika | ||
Swedish säker | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sigurado | ||
Tajik ҳосил | ||
Tamil நிச்சயம் | ||
Tatar sureичшиксез | ||
Telugu ఖచ్చితంగా | ||
Thai แน่นอน | ||
Tigrinya እርግፀኛ | ||
Tsonga tiyisisa | ||
Turkish elbette | ||
Turkmen elbetde | ||
Twi (Akan) gye di | ||
Ukrainian звичайно | ||
Urdu یقینی | ||
Uyghur ئەلۋەتتە | ||
Uzbek aniq | ||
Vietnamese chắc chắn rồi | ||
Welsh siwr | ||
Xhosa qiniseka | ||
Yiddish זיכער | ||
Yoruba daju | ||
Zulu impela |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "seker" comes from Dutch and originally meant "safe" or "secure". |
| Albanian | "I sigurt" can also be used to express confidence or certainty. |
| Amharic | "እርግጠኛ" is related to the root "ርግ","to stand" or "to be firm." |
| Arabic | The word "بالتأكيد" can also mean "of course" or "certainly". |
| Armenian | Հաստատ (sure) is also derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sta- ‘to stand,’ meaning ‘firm’ or ‘established’. |
| Azerbaijani | "mütləq" derives from the Arabic word "muṭlaq", which means "absolute, definitive." |
| Basque | In Basque, "ziur" can mean "sure" or "secure," and is derived from the Proto-Basque word "*ziurtu" meaning "to be sure." |
| Belarusian | The word "упэўнены" also means "firm", "steady", or "reliable" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | "নিশ্চিত" is the present participle form of the verb নিশ্চয় করা which means "to determine or ascertain". |
| Bosnian | The word "naravno" also means "naturally" in Bosnian and derives from the Slavic root "naravь" meaning "nature" or "character." |
| Bulgarian | "Сигурен" is the Bulgarian translation of the English word "confident", but it can also mean "certain" or "safe". |
| Catalan | "Segur" in Catalan derives from the Latin word "securus," meaning "carefree" or "without worry." |
| Cebuano | The word 'sigurado' is derived from the Spanish word 'seguro', which means both 'sure' and 'insurance'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The first character of “当然” means “of course”, while the second character means “reason”. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese word "當然" (dāngrán) literally means "of course" or "naturally," but it can also be used to express "obviously" or "it goes without saying." |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "sicuru" can also mean "mature" or "ripe" and derives from the Latin "secūrus" meaning "without care". |
| Croatian | The word "Naravno" also means "natural" in Croatian, reflecting its root in the Slavic word for "nature". |
| Czech | The Czech phrase "Tak určitě" can also be interpreted as "I highly doubt that" or "Of course not" |
| Danish | "Jo da" is a loan translation from the German phrase "Ja, doch" with the same meaning. |
| Dutch | The word "zeker" comes from the Middle Dutch word "seker" meaning "safe" or "secure". |
| Esperanto | "Certe" is also an adverb in Esperanto meaning "probably" or "likely". |
| Estonian | The word "kindel" (sure) in Estonian can also refer to a torch or a wick. |
| Finnish | The word "varma" is thought to derive from the Proto-Finnic word "*warma" meaning "warm", "firm" or "thick". |
| French | The French spelling of the word comes from the Latin _securus._ The spelling with a circumflex _sûr_, instead, comes from Old Frankish _sur,_ which is the cognate of the English term 'sure'. |
| Frisian | "Wis" is the Frisian equivalent of the Dutch "vast", but can also mean "probably" or "perhaps" depending on context. |
| Galician | In Galician, "seguro" also means strong or tough, while the related noun "seguridade" can refer to confidence, trust, or safety. |
| German | The word 'sicher' also means 'safe' or 'secure'. |
| Greek | "Σίγουρος" ultimately derives from the Persian word "shah", meaning "king". |
| Gujarati | "ખાતરી કરો" (sure) is derived from Persian "khaatir" (thought) and has the additional meaning of "to keep in mind". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "asi re w" is derived from the French "assurer" (to assure, to make certain) and also means "of course" |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "tabbata" can also refer to a guarantee or a sign of confirmation. |
| Hawaiian | 'Oia'i'o, "the real," also means a real person or a solid object. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "בטוח" ( בטח ) is based on the root בט"ח, which is usually associated with concepts like "trust" and "security". |
| Hindi | The word "ज़रूर" (sure) in Hindi derives from the Persian "zarur" (necessary), emphasizing the certainty of something. |
| Hmong | The term ”paub tseeb”, which refers to a type of traditional Hmong skirt with an extra layer on the front that serves as a pouch to carry personal belongings. |
| Hungarian | The word "biztos" in Hungarian also refers to insurance (biztosítás) and is related to the word "bizony" (certainly). |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "viss" is cognate with the English word "wit" and originally meant "to know". |
| Igbo | "N'aka" in Igbo is also used as a short form of "n'aka m aka," which means "I said it before." |
| Indonesian | In Javanese, "tentu" has a separate meaning, namely "to be destined for something" |
| Irish | The word "cinnte" comes from Old Irish "cinnith", meaning "trust" or "belief", and also referred to a "covenant" or "bond". |
| Italian | The word "sicuro" also means "safe" in Italian and derives from the Latin "securus". |
| Japanese | 承知しました (shōchi shimashita) literally means “to receive and know,” and it can also be used to express understanding or agreement. |
| Javanese | The word "tenan" can also mean "real" or "genuine" in Javanese. |
| Kannada | The word "ಖಚಿತವಾಗಿ" in Kannada can also mean "definitely" or "positively". |
| Kazakh | *Әрине* also means 'of course' or 'naturally'. |
| Khmer | "ប្រាកដ" comes from the Pali word "pakatti", meaning "definitely, surely, clearly, or distinctly". |
| Korean | The word "확실한" has Sino-Korean roots and is derived from the Chinese word "確実", which also means "certain" or "sure". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "emîn" has alternate meanings including "true" and "faithful". |
| Kyrgyz | "Сөзсүз" is derived from the Kyrgyz word "сөз" (speech), meaning "without speech" or "without doubt." |
| Latin | In Latin, "cave" can also mean "beware" or "take care", and is related to the word "cautious" in English. |
| Latvian | The word "protams" can also be translated as "obviously", "certainly", or "of course" in English. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "tikras" originally meant "genuine" or "real" and has only recently acquired the meaning of "sure". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "sécher" in Luxembourgish is derived from the Latin word "securus", meaning "free from care or anxiety", and can also mean "safe" or "certain". |
| Macedonian | "Сигурно" has other archaic and colloquial meanings in Macedonian, such as "probably" and "possibly." |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "azo antoka" is also used to express certainty or confidence in something. |
| Malay | The Malay word "pasti" (sure) originates from the Arabic word "fāṣil" meaning "distinguishing". |
| Malayalam | ഉറപ്പാണ്" is derived from the Sanskrit word "niśchita" and also means "firm" or "solid" |
| Maltese | The word "żgur" in Maltese has alternate meanings including "for certain" and "without fail". |
| Maori | Pono has several extended meanings including "correct", "authentic", "reliable" and "ethical". |
| Marathi | The word "नक्की" comes from the Sanskrit word "नित्य" (nitya), meaning "regular, constant, or perpetual." |
| Mongolian | The word |
| Nepali | "निश्चित" is derived from the Sanskrit word "निश्चित" meaning "fixed, settled, established". |
| Norwegian | "Sikker" in Norwegian derives from Old Norse "sikr", meaning strong, firm or secure |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "zedi" in Chichewa, which is used to express agreement, is not etymologically related to the concept of certainty, but rather derives from the verb "kuzeza," meaning "to cut." |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "ډاډه" also means "firm" or "inflexible". |
| Persian | Persian word "مطمئن" is derived from Arabic word "اطمأن" (iṭmaʾanna), meaning feeling tranquil and reassured. |
| Polish | In Polish, the word "pewnie" comes from the Old Polish "pewien," meaning "firm,'' "steady," or "certain," and is also related to the word "pewność," meaning "certainty" or "assurance." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "certo" can also mean "right" in the sense of "correct" or "accurate". |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਯਕੀਨਨ' (yakinan) is derived from the Arabic word 'yakinan', which means 'certainly' or 'assuredly'. |
| Romanian | "Sigur" is derived from the Slavic word "sigura," meaning "confidence" or "certainty." |
| Russian | "Конечно" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "konetšnyj" meaning "finite" and can also mean "of course" in Russian, but not in Church Slavonic. |
| Samoan | The word 'mautinoa' in Samoan can be broken down into 'mau' (meaning 'true') and 'tinoa' (meaning 'body'), suggesting a strong and unwavering conviction. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word cinnteach 'sure', comes from the word ceann 'head', and also means 'chief' and 'foremost' |
| Serbian | Наравно (Serbian for "sure") literally translates to "in level," and also means "equally". |
| Sesotho | The word "bonnete" in Sesotho is derived from the Zulu word "bonke", meaning "all" or "completely". |
| Shona | The word "chokwadi" in Shona can also mean "truth" or "reality". |
| Sindhi | “پڪ” is also a measurement unit used to calculate land in Sindh; one پڪ is approximately equal to half a square kilometer. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word |
| Slovak | The word "samozrejme", which literally means "self-evident" |
| Slovenian | Sure's etymology comes from the Proto-Slavic word "sē-vědъ", meaning "know", "be aware". |
| Somali | The word "Hubaal" in Somali also means "trust" or "reliance". |
| Spanish | The phrase "por supuesto" in Spanish has its roots in the late medieval and early modern period, and literally means "of course" or "as a matter of course." |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "pasti" has an alternate meaning as a conditional particle expressing a possible or probable event. |
| Swahili | The word "hakika" can also mean "reality" or "truth". |
| Swedish | Säker's root meaning is 'to seek' and its use in Swedish may also imply safety, reliability, or trust. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The term "segurado" has the alternate English meanings of "insured" or "secured." |
| Tajik | Ҳосил can also mean 'harvested', 'result' or 'income'. |
| Tamil | The word "நிச்சயம்" (nichchayam) shares its root with the Sanskrit word "nishcaya" which means a "determination" or a "conclusion". |
| Thai | "แน่" in "แน่ใจ" ("certain") is likely related to Old Khmer [ɲɔŋ], meaning "true, correct," and "แน่น" in "แน่นอน" likely derives from that word. |
| Turkish | The word "Elbette" derives from the Arabic word "al-batt", meaning "the firm, the established". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "звичайно" can have several alternate meanings including "of course", "naturally", "by all means", "definitely", and "without a doubt" |
| Urdu | The word "یقینی" can also mean "absolute" or "certain" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "aniq" is also used to mean "exactly", "precisely", "definite", or "certain" |
| Vietnamese | "Chắc chắn rồi" is a popular Vietnamese phrase which literally means "firmly secured". Beyond the sense of certainty it conveys when used as an affirmation, it can also refer to physical security or stability, such as a firmly anchored boat or a well-built house. |
| Welsh | The word "siwr" in Welsh can also mean "steady" or "firm". |
| Xhosa | Xhosa has two words for "sure" – ngqiniseka, which carries a sense of knowing something as true (certain); and Qiniseka, which connotes something being confirmed. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "זיכער" (zikher) originally meant "firmly anchored" or "safe" and only later came to mean "sure". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "daju" is derived from the verb "da", meaning "to be fixed" or "to be certain". |
| Zulu | The word 'impela' can also be used to mean 'indeed' or 'truly'. |
| English | The word "sure" comes from the Old English word "siċor," which means "trustworthy" or "reliable." |