Afrikaans heeltemal | ||
Albanian totalisht | ||
Amharic ሙሉ በሙሉ | ||
Arabic تماما | ||
Armenian ամբողջովին | ||
Assamese সম্পূৰ্ণৰূপে | ||
Aymara taqpachani | ||
Azerbaijani tamamilə | ||
Bambara pewu | ||
Basque guztiz | ||
Belarusian цалкам | ||
Bengali সম্পূর্ণ | ||
Bhojpuri पूरा तरह से बा | ||
Bosnian totalno | ||
Bulgarian напълно | ||
Catalan totalment | ||
Cebuano hingpit | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 完全 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 完全 | ||
Corsican tutalmente | ||
Croatian potpuno | ||
Czech naprosto | ||
Danish helt | ||
Dhivehi މުޅިން | ||
Dogri टोटल | ||
Dutch totaal | ||
English totally | ||
Esperanto tute | ||
Estonian täiesti | ||
Ewe keŋkeŋ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ganap | ||
Finnish täysin | ||
French totalement | ||
Frisian hielendal | ||
Galician totalmente | ||
Georgian სულ | ||
German total | ||
Greek εντελώς | ||
Guarani totalmente | ||
Gujarati તદ્દન | ||
Haitian Creole totalman | ||
Hausa gaba ɗaya | ||
Hawaiian loa | ||
Hebrew לְגַמרֵי | ||
Hindi पूरी तरह से | ||
Hmong lig | ||
Hungarian teljesen | ||
Icelandic algerlega | ||
Igbo kpam kpam | ||
Ilocano naan-anay | ||
Indonesian sama sekali | ||
Irish go hiomlán | ||
Italian totalmente | ||
Japanese 完全に | ||
Javanese babar blas | ||
Kannada ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh толығымен | ||
Khmer ទាំងស្រុង | ||
Kinyarwanda rwose | ||
Konkani पुरायपणान | ||
Korean 전적으로 | ||
Krio ɔltogɛda | ||
Kurdish giştî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بە تەواوی | ||
Kyrgyz толугу менен | ||
Lao ທັງ ໝົດ | ||
Latin prorsus | ||
Latvian pilnīgi | ||
Lingala totalement | ||
Lithuanian visiškai | ||
Luganda ddala | ||
Luxembourgish ganz | ||
Macedonian тотално | ||
Maithili पूर्णतः | ||
Malagasy tanteraka | ||
Malay secara keseluruhan | ||
Malayalam പൂർണ്ണമായും | ||
Maltese totalment | ||
Maori rawa | ||
Marathi पूर्णपणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯄꯨꯡ ꯐꯥꯅꯥ ꯑꯦꯟ.ꯗꯤ.ꯑꯦ | ||
Mizo totally | ||
Mongolian бүхэлд нь | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လုံးဝ | ||
Nepali पूर्ण रूपमा | ||
Norwegian helt klart | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kwathunthu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସମ୍ପୁର୍ଣ୍ଣ ଭାବରେ | | ||
Oromo guutummaatti | ||
Pashto په بشپړ ډول | ||
Persian کاملا | ||
Polish całkowicie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) totalmente | ||
Punjabi ਬਿਲਕੁਲ | ||
Quechua totalmente | ||
Romanian intru totul | ||
Russian полностью | ||
Samoan matua | ||
Sanskrit सर्वथा | ||
Scots Gaelic gu tur | ||
Sepedi ka mo go feletšego | ||
Serbian тотално | ||
Sesotho ka botlalo | ||
Shona zvachose | ||
Sindhi مڪمل طور تي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මුළුමනින්ම | ||
Slovak naprosto | ||
Slovenian popolnoma | ||
Somali gebi ahaanba | ||
Spanish totalmente | ||
Sundanese leres-leres | ||
Swahili kabisa | ||
Swedish totalt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ganap na | ||
Tajik тамоман | ||
Tamil முற்றிலும் | ||
Tatar тулысынча | ||
Telugu పూర్తిగా | ||
Thai ทั้งหมด | ||
Tigrinya ፍጹም | ||
Tsonga hi ku helela | ||
Turkish tamamen | ||
Turkmen tutuşlygyna | ||
Twi (Akan) koraa | ||
Ukrainian цілком | ||
Urdu مکمل طور پر | ||
Uyghur پۈتۈنلەي | ||
Uzbek umuman | ||
Vietnamese tổng cộng | ||
Welsh yn llwyr | ||
Xhosa ngokupheleleyo | ||
Yiddish טאָוטאַלי | ||
Yoruba lapapọ | ||
Zulu ngokuphelele |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "heeltemal" in Afrikaans comes from the Dutch word "geheel en al" meaning "completely and all". |
| Albanian | The word "totalisht" in Albanian is derived from the Latin word "totalis", meaning "entire" or "complete". |
| Amharic | "ሙሉ በሙሉ" also means "completely," "thoroughly," or "very" |
| Arabic | "تماما" refers to a state of utter completion, perfection, or totality, and may also convey a sense of absoluteness, certainty, or finality. |
| Azerbaijani | "Tamamilə" is thought to be derived from Persian "tamamil" or Arabic "tamm", both meaning "full" or "complete." |
| Basque | The word "guztiz" can also be used to mean "completely", "thoroughly", or "entirely". |
| Belarusian | Цалкам is a word in Belarusian that means "completely or entirely" and is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "cělkъ", also meaning "whole or complete" |
| Bengali | The word "সম্পূর্ণ" in Bengali also means "whole" or "complete". |
| Bosnian | "Totalno" in Bosnian also means "completely," "fully," or "thoroughly." |
| Bulgarian | The word "напълно" can also mean "completely" or "entirely" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The word "totalment" in Catalan is derived from the Latin "totalis", meaning "whole" or "complete." |
| Cebuano | "Hingpit" also means "perfect" or "fully" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Chinese, “完全” is also used to mean “perfect” or “complete”, especially in a physical sense. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese traditional character “完全” (totally) is a combination of “王” (king) and “玉” (jade), indicating the perfection of a king’s virtue. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "tutalmente" is derived from the Italian "totalmente" and the Spanish "totalmente". |
| Croatian | The word "potpuno" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*pet-", meaning "to spread" or "to fill". |
| Czech | The Czech word "naprosto" originally meant "completely", but over time it acquired a colloquial meaning of "totally", expressing strong emphasis. |
| Danish | Danish 'helt' means 'completely' or 'entirely', and shares origins with the English word 'whole'. |
| Dutch | The word "totaal" in Dutch is derived from the French word "total" and also has the meaning of "overall". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "tute" originated from the root "tut" meaning "every, all, whole" and originally meant "completely, totally". |
| Estonian | "Täiesti" also means "filled", which refers to its historical usage to describe containers such as a bottle or glass. |
| Finnish | The word "täysin" derives from the Proto-Finnic word "*täsi", meaning "full, complete". |
| French | "Totalement" (totally) comes from the Latin "totalis" (whole, entire), which itself comes from the Indo-European root "tel-" (to lift, to carry). This root is also found in the Latin word "tollere" (to lift, to raise), which gives us the English word "toll". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "hielendal" comes from the Proto-Germanic root "hailag-," which also appears in Dutch "heel" and German "heilig" (both meaning "holy") and is thus not originally related to the Frisian "hiel" (whole). |
| Galician | The word "totalmente" in Galician comes from the Latin "totaliter" and can also mean "completely" or "entirely". |
| Georgian | The term "სულ" in Georgian means "totally" in English, although it also has the meanings of "soul," as in the soul of a human or the soul of nature. |
| German | The German word "total" originates from the Latin "totus" meaning "whole" and has been used in German since the 16th century. |
| Greek | The word "εντελώς" is derived from the ancient Greek word "έντελής", meaning "complete" or "perfect". |
| Gujarati | The word તદ્દન is derived from Sanskrit and it also means 'completely' or 'utterly'. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, the word "totalman" can also mean "completely", "utterly", or "entirely". |
| Hausa | "Gaba ɗaya" in Hausa is a compound of "gaba" meaning "front" and "ɗaya" meaning "one." Thus it originally implied that something is complete, with all its "fronts" (or aspects) having been "united." |
| Hawaiian | The word "loa" in Hawaiian can also mean "long" or "tall". |
| Hebrew | The word "לְגַמרֵי" is formed from the root "גמר", meaning "finish", and thus it means "completely" or "totally". |
| Hindi | "पूरी तरह से" is the Hindi translation of the English word "totally", a colloquial adjective and adverb that can mean "completely" or "very", or can be used to emphasize a feeling or reaction. |
| Hmong | The word "lig" can also mean "very" or "extremely". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "teljesen" originally meant "perfectly" or "completely" rather than "totally". |
| Icelandic | The word "algerlega" is a compound word deriving from its constituent parts, "all(t)" ("all") and "gerlega" ("thoroughly"). |
| Igbo | "Kpạm kpam" in Igbo can also mean "suddenly" or "unexpectedly". |
| Indonesian | "Sama sekali" also means "not at all" in Indonesian. |
| Irish | "Go hiomlán " literally means "into a whole" which captures the fullness of meaning that the word conveys. |
| Italian | "Totalmente" is also used to mean "completely" or "thoroughly" in Italian. |
| Japanese | "完全" can also mean "flawless" or "perfect". |
| Javanese | The phrase 'babar blas' literally translates to 'spread out flat', indicating the idea of something being comprehensive or total. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ" can be traced back to the Sanskrit word "सम्यक्", meaning "completely" or "thoroughly". |
| Kazakh | The word "толығымен" in Kazakh also means "completely" or "thoroughly".} |
| Khmer | The word "ទាំងស្រុង" can also refer to the totality or entirety of something. |
| Korean | The word "전적으로" can also mean "wholly" or "completely", and is often used in formal or written contexts. |
| Kurdish | "Giştî" is derived from "gişt" (night) and can also mean "darkness" or "obscurity". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "толугу менен" directly translates to "fully with". It emphasizes the completeness of an action or state. |
| Latin | The adverb "prorsus" can also mean "straight forward" or "without hesitation" depending on the context. |
| Latvian | "Pilnigi" derives from "pilns" (full), and means "completely" or "perfectly". |
| Lithuanian | The word "visiškai" in Lithuanian derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *wik- meaning "to separate, divide". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "ganz" in Luxembourgish can also mean "very" or "completely", and is derived from the German word "ganz", meaning "whole" or "complete". |
| Macedonian | The word "тотално" comes from the French word "total" and can also mean "completely" or "entirely" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "tanteraka" is derived from a word meaning "very much" and "to the end". In addition to "totally," it can also mean "completely," "thoroughly," or "entirely." |
| Malay | The phrase 'secara keseluruhan' literally means 'in a whole way' or 'as a whole' in Malay. |
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| Maltese | The Maltese word 'totalment' comes from the French word 'totalement', but it can also mean 'completely' or 'thoroughly' in English. |
| Maori | "Rawa" can also refer to a plain, a marsh or swamp, or the state of being stripped - as of leaves, or feathers. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word 'पूर्णपणे' ('totally') is derived from the Sanskrit word 'पूर्ण' ('complete') and literally means 'in a complete manner'. |
| Mongolian | Бүхэлд нь is usually used to modify actions, and implies that the action was completed to the full extent of the performer's ability. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "လုံးဝ" comes from the Mon word "לון" and can also mean "entirely" or "all". |
| Nepali | "पूर्ण रूपमा" is equivalent to the English word "fully" and can also mean "completely" or "entirely". |
| Norwegian | The word "helt klart" in Norwegian also means "very clear" or "completely clear". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kwathunthu" in Nyanja (Chichewa) is also used to mean "thoroughly" or "completely. |
| Persian | کاملا can also be used as a verb to mean "to finish". |
| Polish | The term "całkowicie" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "cělkъ", meaning "whole" or "complete". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "totalmente" can also mean "completely", "utterly", or "entirely". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਬਿਲਕੁਲ" ('bilkul') is derived from the Persian word "bi-kull", meaning "without all" or "completely". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "intru totul" derives from Latin "in toto" ('as a whole') and means 'entirely, utterly' or 'absolutely, downright'. |
| Russian | "Полностью" is cognate with "полк" (regiment) and literally means "in full formation". |
| Samoan | The word 'matua' can also be used to mean 'heavy' in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic, "gu tur" also means "completely" and "very much". |
| Serbian | "Тотално" means "completely" in Serbian, but it can also mean "in total" or "in all". |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "ka botlalo" can be traced back to the root word "botla", meaning "to finish" or "to complete", and is often used in the sense of "completely" or "thoroughly". |
| Shona | The word "zvachose" in Shona means "completely" or "thoroughly", and is often used to emphasize the totality of something. |
| Sindhi | The word "مڪمل طور تي" can also mean "completely", "fully", or "thoroughly". |
| Slovak | The word "naprosto" in Slovak is derived from the adjective "naprostý", meaning "absolute" or "complete"} |
| Slovenian | "Popolnoma" is also used in formal Slovenian for "completely" or "fully." |
| Somali | The word 'gebi ahaanba' literally means 'to be on the back of something', implying that something is totally covered or enveloped. |
| Spanish | "Totalmente" also means "in a total way" and emphasizes the intensity of an action or characteristic. |
| Sundanese | The term "leres-leres" may be derived from the word "leres" meaning "completely" or "thoroughly" in Old Sundanese. |
| Swahili | The word "kabisa" can also mean "very", "completely", or "thoroughly" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | The word 'totalt' can also mean entirely, utterly, completely, absolutely, wholly, fully, or quite. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Ganap na derives from the Sanskrit "ganita" which means "complete", and also means "mature" and "finished". |
| Tajik | The word "тамоман" is derived from the Persian word "تمام" meaning "complete" or "whole". |
| Tamil | "முற்றிலும்" also means "full or complete", "entire" or "perfectly" in Tamil. |
| Thai | The word "ทั้งหมด" in Thai derives from the Sanskrit word "sarva", meaning "all" or "entire". |
| Turkish | The word "tamamen" is derived from the Arabic word "tam" meaning "complete" and the Persian suffix "-en" indicating totality. |
| Ukrainian | The word "цілком" can also mean "completely", "fully", or "entirely". |
| Urdu | The word "مکمل طور پر" (mukammal tor par) is derived from Arabic and means "completely," "fully," or "thoroughly." |
| Uzbek | The word "umuman" in Uzbek is a loanword from Arabic, where it has the meaning of "generally". In Uzbek, it has acquired the additional meaning of "totally". |
| Vietnamese | The word "Tổng cộng" comes from the Chinese word "总共", which also means "totally" or "in total". |
| Welsh | "Yn llwyr" is related to the word "llyw" ("guide"), and hence has the senses of "completely; entirely; as a whole". |
| Xhosa | The word 'ngokupheleleyo' is used as an adverb meaning 'in a very complete, thorough, or perfect manner'. |
| Yiddish | The word 'טאָוטאַלי' (totally) in Yiddish can also mean 'very', 'completely', or 'absolutely' |
| Yoruba | "Lapapọ" is a Yoruba word meaning "completely" or "thoroughly" and can be used to refer to the degree or extent of an action or state. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ngokuphelele" also means "perfectly" and can be used to describe something that is both complete and flawless. |
| English | "Totally" was originally used in the 1800s to mean "in a very short time" (i.e., "he died totally") and not until the early 20th century did it begin to take on the sense of "completely" (i.e., "I totally agree"). |