True in Different Languages
Discover 'True' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
True
Afrikaans waar | ||
Albanian e vertete | ||
Amharic እውነት ነው | ||
Arabic صحيح | ||
Armenian ճիշտ | ||
Assamese সঁচা | ||
Aymara chiqa | ||
Azerbaijani doğru | ||
Bambara sɛbɛ | ||
Basque egia | ||
Belarusian праўда | ||
Bengali সত্য | ||
Bhojpuri सच | ||
Bosnian tačno | ||
Bulgarian вярно | ||
Catalan cert | ||
Cebuano tinuud | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 真正 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 真正 | ||
Corsican veru | ||
Croatian pravi | ||
Czech skutečný | ||
Danish rigtigt | ||
Dhivehi ރަނގަޅު | ||
Dogri सच्च | ||
Dutch waar | ||
English true | ||
Esperanto vera | ||
Estonian tõsi | ||
Ewe nyateƒe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) totoo | ||
Finnish totta | ||
French vrai | ||
Frisian wier | ||
Galician certo | ||
Georgian მართალია | ||
German wahr | ||
Greek αληθής | ||
Guarani teete | ||
Gujarati સાચું | ||
Haitian Creole vre | ||
Hausa gaskiya | ||
Hawaiian ʻoiaʻiʻo | ||
Hebrew נָכוֹן | ||
Hindi सच | ||
Hmong muaj tseeb | ||
Hungarian igaz | ||
Icelandic satt | ||
Igbo eziokwu | ||
Ilocano agpayso | ||
Indonesian benar | ||
Irish fíor | ||
Italian vero | ||
Japanese true | ||
Javanese bener | ||
Kannada ನಿಜ | ||
Kazakh шын | ||
Khmer ពិត | ||
Kinyarwanda ni ukuri | ||
Konkani खरें | ||
Korean 진실 | ||
Krio tru | ||
Kurdish rast | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕاست | ||
Kyrgyz чындык | ||
Lao ຄວາມຈິງ | ||
Latin verum | ||
Latvian taisnība | ||
Lingala ya solo | ||
Lithuanian tiesa | ||
Luganda kituufu | ||
Luxembourgish richteg | ||
Macedonian вистинито | ||
Maithili सत्य | ||
Malagasy marina | ||
Malay benar | ||
Malayalam ശരി | ||
Maltese vera | ||
Maori pono | ||
Marathi खरे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯆꯨꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo dik | ||
Mongolian үнэн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မှန်ပါတယ် | ||
Nepali सत्य | ||
Norwegian ekte | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zoona | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସତ | ||
Oromo dhugaa | ||
Pashto ریښتیا | ||
Persian درست است، واقعی | ||
Polish prawdziwe | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) verdadeiro | ||
Punjabi ਸੱਚ ਹੈ | ||
Quechua chiqaq | ||
Romanian adevărat | ||
Russian правда | ||
Samoan moni | ||
Sanskrit सत्यम् | ||
Scots Gaelic fìor | ||
Sepedi nnete | ||
Serbian истина | ||
Sesotho 'nete | ||
Shona ichokwadi | ||
Sindhi سچو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සැබෑ | ||
Slovak pravda | ||
Slovenian prav | ||
Somali run | ||
Spanish cierto | ||
Sundanese leres | ||
Swahili kweli | ||
Swedish sann | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) totoo | ||
Tajik дуруст | ||
Tamil உண்மை | ||
Tatar дөрес | ||
Telugu నిజం | ||
Thai จริง | ||
Tigrinya ሓቂ | ||
Tsonga ntiyiso | ||
Turkish doğru | ||
Turkmen dogry | ||
Twi (Akan) nokorɛ | ||
Ukrainian правда | ||
Urdu سچ ہے | ||
Uyghur true | ||
Uzbek to'g'ri | ||
Vietnamese thật | ||
Welsh wir | ||
Xhosa yinyani | ||
Yiddish אמת | ||
Yoruba otitọ | ||
Zulu iqiniso |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "waar" in Afrikaans can also refer to goods or merchandise, derived from the Dutch word "waar" meaning "commodity". |
| Albanian | The word "e vertete" is also used to mean "a truth", "the truth" or "a true thing". |
| Arabic | In religious terms, "صحيح" (true) can also mean "sound" or "valid," as in a hadith that is considered authentic and reliable. |
| Armenian | The word „վիս“ ("true") in Armenian also means "correct", "right", or "proper", |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "doğru" means "truth", "correct", or "correctness", while its etymology relates it to the Turkic root "doğur", meaning "to give birth" or "to create". |
| Basque | The Basque word "egia" also means "reality" and "justice". |
| Belarusian | The Russian "правда" derives from "право", cognate to the Greek "orphos" (straight) and to the Sanskrit "rta" (order, truth, straightness). |
| Bengali | সত্য shares its root 'sat' (सत् ) from Sanskrit with 'satya' (সত্য), which has a wider meaning of a 'good' 'righteous' 'existent' 'non-false'. |
| Bosnian | The word "tačno" in Bosnian can also mean "straight" or "accurate". |
| Bulgarian | In Old Bulgarian, "вярно" also had the meaning of "constant" (непрекъснато, непрестанно). This meaning is preserved today in some dialects. |
| Catalan | The word "cert" in Catalan also means "certain" or "sure." |
| Cebuano | The word 'tinuud' in Cebuano also means 'genuine', 'authentic', or 'real'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "真正" originally meant "real" as opposed to "imaginary". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The term '真正' is used to emphasize authenticity and genuineness. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "veru" means "true" in English, "real" in Italian, and "true" or "real" in Portuguese. |
| Croatian | Pravi in Croatian can also mean 'right' in the sense of 'correct', and derives from the Proto-Slavic word *pravъ. |
| Czech | "Skutočný" originated from "skut-", meaning "deed", suggesting its original meaning was "factual" or "realized". |
| Danish | Rigtigt can also mean "proper," "decent," "correct," or "appropriate." |
| Dutch | In Dutch, the word "waar" can also mean "product," derived from the Old Frisian word "were," meaning "goods." |
| Esperanto | In Spanish, 'vera' means 'bank,' and thus a 'beach' is a 'sandy bank'. |
| Estonian | The word "tõsi" in Estonian is derived from the Proto-Uralic root *tōćće, meaning "certainty, truth." |
| Finnish | The word "totta" is derived from the Uralic root *tokta-, meaning "precise" or "correct". |
| French | The etymology of "vrai" is the Latin word "verus," which also means "real"} |
| Frisian | The word "wier" in Frisian has a rich history related to the concepts of "defense" and "sacredness". |
| Galician | The Galician word "certo" can also mean "precise" or "sure". |
| German | The word "wahr" in German also means "good" or "genuine". |
| Greek | The word "αληθής" can also mean "unhidden" or "not forgotten" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | સાચું is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tek-, meaning 'to build', and is related to English 'thatched'. |
| Haitian Creole | Vre is an abbreviation of the French word 'vraiment,' meaning 'really,' and it is also used to express strong agreement in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | The word 'gaskiya' is derived from the Arabic word 'sadiq', which means 'truthful' or 'sincere'. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, ʻoiaʻiʻo not only means "true," but also "to be in agreement," "to be accurate," and "to be certain." |
| Hebrew | "נָכוֹן" (true) also means ready or set, like "הַכֹּל נָכוֹן" (everything is ready). |
| Hindi | The word 'सच' (sach) in Hindi is derived from the Sanskrit word 'सत्' (sat), which also means 'being' or 'existence'. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word for true, muaj tseeb, is also used as an emphasis to indicate that something is really good. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "igaz" originally referred to the axis of a cart or wheel, hence its figurative meaning of "straight" or "correct". |
| Icelandic | Cognate with English 'sad' (serious) or German 'satt' (full, satisfied) |
| Igbo | The word "eziokwu" in Igbo not only means "true" but also "reality" or "authenticity" |
| Indonesian | Benar has a root in Old Javanese meaning 'to agree' and 'not broken', and in Malay it also means 'good'. |
| Irish | In Old Irish, "fíor" could also mean "pure," "clear," "genuine," "legitimate," or "righteous." |
| Italian | Vero, meaning 'true' in Italian, derives from the Latin word 'verum', which also means 'true', 'real', or 'genuine'. |
| Japanese | The word "true" (真実) in Japanese literally means "real thing" or "genuine thing". |
| Javanese | The word "bener" in Javanese also means "to fix something" or "to make something right". |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ನಿಜ" also has alternate meanings like "proper" and "the actual state or form of something." |
| Kazakh | The word "шын" can also mean "genuine" or "authentic" in Kazakh, highlighting its multifaceted nature. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ពិត" is derived from Sanskrit "prati", meaning "in accordance with", and is also used in the sense of "correct" or "proper". |
| Korean | "진실" is derived from the Sino-Korean word 真實, which means "real" or "genuine." |
| Kurdish | The word "rast" also means "right" in the sense of direction or correctness. |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, the word "чындык" can also refer to "reality" or "the truth of the matter" |
| Lao | The Lao word for "true" has cognates in Sanskrit, Pali, and Thai, and has been used since at least the 14th century. |
| Latin | "Verum" also derives from the Etruscan word "feru" (right, proper) but also from "weros" (sacred). |
| Latvian | "Taisnīga" can also mean "honest" or "fair". |
| Lithuanian | Linguists posit that „tiesa“ is cognate with the Proto-Indo-European word for „law” or „right.” Therefore, it holds the meaning of both „true” and „correct.” |
| Luxembourgish | The word "richteg" can also be used to describe a "real" person, a person of good character. |
| Macedonian | The word "вистинито" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *istina, meaning "truth" or "validity." |
| Malagasy | The word "marina" can also mean "indeed" or "very much" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | The word 'benar' also means 'constant', 'firm' or 'permanent' in Malay. |
| Malayalam | The word 'ശരി' (sari) also means 'right' in Malayalam, suggesting a connection between truth and correctness or alignment. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "vera" is derived from the Latin "vera" (true), and it also has the alternate meaning of "really" or "indeed". |
| Maori | "Pono" can also mean correct, moral, genuine, or virtuous, and is often used in a religious context. |
| Marathi | "खरे" (true) also means "solid" or "real". |
| Mongolian | The term "үнэн" can also mean "honest" or "fair". |
| Nepali | "सत्य" can also mean "fact" or "reality" in Sanskrit. |
| Norwegian | The word "ekte" can also mean "genuine" or "authentic". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "zoona" in Nyanja (Chichewa) is also used to mean "straight" or "correct". |
| Pashto | ریښتیا is derived from the Persian word rast, meaning 'straight' or 'correct'. |
| Persian | The word "true" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰrēw-, meaning "firm, stable." |
| Polish | The word 'prawdziwe' in Polish also refers to a specific type of mushroom, the Boletus edulis. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, the word "verdadeiro" originally meant "something one must see". |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਸੱਚ ਹੈ" can also mean "it is true" or "it is the truth". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "Adevărat" derives from the Proto-Slavic "pravdъ," meaning "justice" or "right." |
| Russian | The word "правда" originally meant "straight", hence its connection to "rightness" and "truth" |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "moni" can also mean "wealth" or "money". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'fìor' is derived from the Gaelic root 'fìr', meaning 'man' or 'true'. |
| Serbian | The word "истина" also means "truth" in Russian, and both words have the same root as the English word "true". |
| Sesotho | "Nete" in Sesotho means 'real' or 'genuine' and is cognate with 'nete' in Sepedi, which means 'right', and with 'net' in Ndebele, which means 'firm'. |
| Shona | In addition to its usage to signify truth, "ichokwadi" (true) can also refer to a fact, truthfulness, or correctness. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word "سچو" also means "the sun". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "සැබෑ" is also used to describe something that is authentic, genuine, or real. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, the word "pravda" can also mean "justice" or "righteousness". |
| Slovenian | "Prav" in Slovenian can also mean "right" or "just," and comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*pravъ" with the same meanings. |
| Somali | Run is also used as a verb to describe the action of flowing or leaking, such as in the phrase 'biyuhu wuu runayaa' (the water is flowing). |
| Spanish | The word "cierto" in Spanish can also mean "some" or "certain". |
| Sundanese | The word "leres" in Sundanese also refers to something that is straight or correct. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "kweli" is commonly used to indicate "truth" or "authenticity", but it also has a secondary meaning of "really" or "indeed". |
| Swedish | Sann can also mean "certain" or "positive" |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "totoo" can also mean "real" or "genuine", and is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*tuqtuq" meaning "straight" or "correct". |
| Tajik | The word “дуруст” also means “correct”, “straight”, and “suitable” |
| Tamil | "உண்மை" also means "the real form of something, nature, reality". |
| Telugu | "నిజం" (true) also means "real", "genuine", or "honest" in Telugu. |
| Thai | Thai word "จริง" means "true", comes from the Sanskrit "Satya" and is also related to the word "thing" (สิ่ง) |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "doğru" also means "straight" and is the origin of the word "doğruluk" (uprightness). |
| Ukrainian | The word "правда" also means "justice" and comes from the Proto-Slavic word "pravъ", meaning "rightful" or "correct." |
| Urdu | The phrase 'سچ ہے' also serves as an emphatic response that means 'Of course it is true' when placed after a statement. |
| Uzbek | The word "to'g'ri" in Uzbek has connotations of "straight" or "correct" besides its primary meaning of "true". |
| Vietnamese | In the context of Buddhist meditation, |
| Welsh | "Wir" can also mean "to become" or "to get" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, 'yinyani' also means 'real' or 'genuine', reflecting the importance of truthfulness in the culture. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "אמת" (emet) derives from the Hebrew word of the same spelling, which means "truth" or "faithfulness." |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "otitọ" is derived from the phrase "ò ti tọ," which means "it has come to pass." |
| Zulu | It is a variant of the word 'iqiniso'. Both can be used for 'truth' and 'faith'. |
| English | The word "true" comes from the Old English word "treow," meaning "faithful" or "trustworthy." |