Very in Different Languages
Discover 'Very' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Very
Afrikaans baie | ||
Albanian shumë | ||
Amharic በጣም | ||
Arabic للغاية | ||
Armenian շատ | ||
Assamese অতি | ||
Aymara wali | ||
Azerbaijani çox | ||
Bambara kɔsɛbɛ | ||
Basque oso | ||
Belarusian вельмі | ||
Bengali খুব | ||
Bhojpuri बहुते | ||
Bosnian vrlo | ||
Bulgarian много | ||
Catalan molt | ||
Cebuano kaayo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 非常 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 非常 | ||
Corsican assai | ||
Croatian vrlo | ||
Czech velmi | ||
Danish meget | ||
Dhivehi ވަރަށް | ||
Dogri बड़ा | ||
Dutch heel | ||
English very | ||
Esperanto tre | ||
Estonian väga | ||
Ewe ŋtᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) napaka | ||
Finnish erittäin | ||
French très | ||
Frisian hiel | ||
Galician moi | ||
Georgian ძალიან | ||
German sehr | ||
Greek πολύ | ||
Guarani eterei | ||
Gujarati ખૂબ | ||
Haitian Creole trè | ||
Hausa sosai | ||
Hawaiian loa | ||
Hebrew מאוד | ||
Hindi बहुत | ||
Hmong heev | ||
Hungarian nagyon | ||
Icelandic mjög | ||
Igbo ukwu | ||
Ilocano unay | ||
Indonesian sangat | ||
Irish an- | ||
Italian molto | ||
Japanese 非常に | ||
Javanese banget | ||
Kannada ತುಂಬಾ | ||
Kazakh өте | ||
Khmer ខ្លាំងណាស់ | ||
Kinyarwanda cyane | ||
Konkani खूब | ||
Korean 대단히 | ||
Krio rili | ||
Kurdish gellek | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) زۆر | ||
Kyrgyz абдан | ||
Lao ຫຼາຍ | ||
Latin ipsum | ||
Latvian ļoti | ||
Lingala mpenza | ||
Lithuanian labai | ||
Luganda nyo | ||
Luxembourgish ganz | ||
Macedonian многу | ||
Maithili बहुत | ||
Malagasy tena | ||
Malay sangat | ||
Malayalam വളരെ | ||
Maltese ħafna | ||
Maori rawa | ||
Marathi खूप | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯌꯥꯝꯅ | ||
Mizo lutuk | ||
Mongolian маш их | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အရမ်း | ||
Nepali धेरै | ||
Norwegian veldig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kwambiri | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବହୁତ | ||
Oromo baay'ee | ||
Pashto ډېر | ||
Persian بسیار | ||
Polish bardzo | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) muito | ||
Punjabi ਬਹੁਤ | ||
Quechua aswan | ||
Romanian foarte | ||
Russian очень | ||
Samoan lava | ||
Sanskrit अतीव | ||
Scots Gaelic glè | ||
Sepedi kudu | ||
Serbian врло | ||
Sesotho haholo | ||
Shona chaizvo | ||
Sindhi تمام گهڻو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉතාම | ||
Slovak veľmi | ||
Slovenian zelo | ||
Somali aad | ||
Spanish muy | ||
Sundanese pisan | ||
Swahili sana | ||
Swedish mycket | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) napaka | ||
Tajik хеле | ||
Tamil மிகவும் | ||
Tatar бик | ||
Telugu చాలా | ||
Thai มาก | ||
Tigrinya ብጣዕሚ | ||
Tsonga swinene | ||
Turkish çok | ||
Turkmen gaty gowy | ||
Twi (Akan) pa ara | ||
Ukrainian дуже | ||
Urdu بہت | ||
Uyghur بەك | ||
Uzbek juda | ||
Vietnamese rất | ||
Welsh iawn | ||
Xhosa kakhulu | ||
Yiddish זייער | ||
Yoruba pupọ | ||
Zulu kakhulu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "baie" is derived from the Dutch word "bij" meaning "near". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "shumë" can also mean "much" or "many" and is derived from the Proto-Albanian word "*shumni" meaning "abundance". |
| Amharic | Derived from the root word "ጣመ" (to finish, to complete), "በጣም" can mean "thoroughly" or "completely" as well as "very". |
| Arabic | The word "للغاية" in Arabic has multiple meanings including "extremity", "purpose", and "goal." |
| Armenian | The word "շատ" (shat) in Armenian can also mean "much" or "many". |
| Azerbaijani | "Çox" in Azerbaijani also has the alternate meaning of "many". |
| Belarusian | "Вельмі" is an archaic word in Belarusian with the same root as "велічны", meaning "important", "solemn", or "great". |
| Bengali | The word "খুব" (khub) is derived from the Sanskrit word "kubera," originally meaning "hump" or "heap" and later "great" or "abundant." |
| Bosnian | In Slavic languages such as Serbian, Croatian, and Bulgarian, 'vrlo' can also refer to 'hot'. |
| Bulgarian | In addition to meaning "very" and being cognate with the English "much", "много" can also function as the Bulgarian cognate of the English "many". |
| Catalan | The word "molt" in Catalan can also refer to a change in appearance or condition |
| Cebuano | Though derived from Spanish "mucho", "kaayo" carries connotations of "excessive" or "extreme" when used by itself. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character 非常 can also mean 'abnormal' or 'emergency'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 非常 (chángfēi) also means 'abnormal' or 'extraordinary' and is sometimes used as an adverb. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "assai" derives from the Latin "ad satis", meaning "to satisfaction". |
| Croatian | The word "vrlo" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *vьrlo, meaning "extremely". It can also be used to mean "very much" or "greatly". |
| Czech | The word "velmi" can be traced back to the Sanskrit word "valmiki" meaning "heap" or "large quantity". |
| Danish | The word "meget" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "mikilaz", meaning "great" or "much". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "heel" can also mean "all" or "entire", similar to the English word "whole". This is a common use of the word in compounds, such as "heelal" (the universe) and "heelkunde" (surgery). |
| Esperanto | In Esperanto, "tre" can also mean "much", "extremely", or "exceedingly." |
| Estonian | The Estonian word |
| Finnish | The word "erittäin" is derived from the same root as "ear" and "earring"} |
| French | The word |
| Frisian | The word "hiel" in Frisian is derived from the Old Frisian word "hela," meaning "whole" or "complete." |
| Galician | In Galician, "moi" can also mean "a lot of" or "a great deal of". |
| Georgian | The word ძალიან is derived from the Proto-Kartvelian root *d(i)al-, meaning 'great, much'. In Georgian, it can also mean 'too much, excessive'. |
| German | The word "sehr" in German is cognate with the English word "sore" and originally meant "painful" or "grievous". |
| Greek | In Greek, "πολύ" doesn't only mean "very," it can also refer to "many" or "a lot of." |
| Gujarati | The word "ખૂબ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "kūpa" meaning "well" or "pit". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "trè" also has an alternate meaning and can be used to refer to the three-leaf clover or shamrock. |
| Hausa | Sosai can also be used to express a sense of sarcasm or surprise. |
| Hawaiian | The word loa also means "long" in Hawaiian, as in "loa’a’ole," or "exceedingly long." |
| Hebrew | The word "מאוד" (meod) in Hebrew is cognate with the Arabic word "مائة" (mi'a), meaning "hundred", indicating a large quantity and hence intensifying the adjective or adverb it modifies. |
| Hindi | The word 'बहुत' comes from the Sanskrit word 'भूयस्,' which means 'more' or 'abundant'. |
| Hmong | The word "heev" in Hmong is also used to express surprise or excitement. |
| Hungarian | The word "nagyon" (meaning "very" in Hungarian) is derived from the Old Turkish word "nağır", which means "loudly". |
| Icelandic | The word mjög is cognate with the German word mögen, "to like," and the Dutch word mogen, "may," indicating a former sense of "appropriateness" or "fittingness.". |
| Igbo | The etymology of "ukwu" traces back to the Proto-Igbo '*kpɔ̀' meaning "much" or "great." |
| Indonesian | The word "sangat" comes from the Sanskrit word "samadhi", meaning "concentration" or "deep absorption". |
| Irish | In Irish, 'an-' can also mean 'in' or 'on,' and is used as a prefix to change a noun into an adjective. |
| Italian | Molte is also a contraction of the Italian phrase 'molte persone', which means 'many people' |
| Japanese | Originally, the kanji composing "非常に" mean "an exceptional event", and the word can still imply a sense of extraordinary circumstances or extreme conditions |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "banget" can also mean "too much" or "excessively", as in "Jangan banget nanti keasinan" (Don't add too much or it will be too salty). |
| Kannada | The word "ತುಂಬಾ" (very) in Kannada is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root "*tumpa" meaning "big" or "large" |
| Kazakh | The word |
| Korean | The Korean word "대단히" can also mean "greatly" or "considerably." |
| Kurdish | The word 'gellek' can also be translated as 'abundantly', a meaning derived from the verb 'gelin', which means 'to be abundant'. |
| Kyrgyz | "Абдан" can also mean "excessively" or "extremely." |
| Lao | The word "ຫຼາຍ" can also mean "many" or "much". |
| Latin | The word "ipsum" can also refer to a person of the highest integrity who adheres to the highest ethical standards. |
| Latvian | "Ļoti" also means "very much" or "very many" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The word "labai" in Lithuanian has roots in an extinct Baltic language and has a similar origin to the Slavic word "liubo" meaning "love". |
| Luxembourgish | "Ganz" can also be used to mean "at all" in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | "Много" can mean either "very", or large quantity or number. |
| Malagasy | "Tena" can also mean "too much" or "excessive" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | "Sangat" can also mean "very much" or "greatly" in other contexts. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, 'വളരെ' is also used as a noun meaning 'growth' or 'development'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word 'ħafna' can also mean 'many', 'much' or 'a lot' depending on context. |
| Maori | The word "rawa" can also be used to mean "raw" in Maori. |
| Marathi | The word "खूप" in Marathi is derived from "kup" meaning "heap" or "excess". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "маш их" derives from the classical Mongolian word "мах ш" meaning "great" or "much". |
| Nepali | "धेरै" is a Nepali word derived from Sanskrit "धृ", meaning "to hold" or "to be firm." |
| Norwegian | The word "veldig" in Norwegian is derived from the Old Norse word "veldigr", meaning "mighty" or "powerful". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'kwambiri' is also used to denote 'excessive' or 'extreme'. |
| Pashto | ډېر means "more" in Pashto, and can be used to compare two things, or to intensify an adjective. |
| Persian | The Persian word "بسیار" derives from the Avestan "bisyara", meaning "much", and Indo-European root *peh₂-, meaning "cattle."} |
| Polish | There's an interesting theory that "bardzo" derives from the Old Polish word for "rapid". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Muito" is derived from the Latin "multus", hence its cognate relationship with English "much" and similar words in other Romance languages. |
| Punjabi | ਬਹੁਤ derives from Sanskrit "bahu" (much) and has the alternate meanings of "many" and "excessive" |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "foarte" originates from the Latin word "fortis", meaning "strong" or "brave". |
| Russian | "Очень" comes from Old Church Slavonic, where it meant "extremely" or "exceedingly". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'lava' comes from the Polynesian root word 'lafa' meaning 'to exceed' or 'to overflow'. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Glè" is cognate with Irish glíoch meaning "great, very" and glíos "greatness, abundance," from an obsolete verb glís "abound, swell." |
| Serbian | 'Врло' is related to 'врело' which means 'warm', so it connotes high temperature and warmth. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "haholo" also means "very great" or "exceedingly". |
| Shona | "Chaizvo" is a loanword that originated in the Afrikaans word "te veel" meaning "too much". |
| Sindhi | "تمام گهڻو" not only translates to “very,” but is also the Sindhi word for the total solar eclipse. |
| Slovak | The word "veľmi" is also used in Slovak to express "very much" or "greatly". |
| Slovenian | Besides 'very', 'zelo' can also mean 'venom', stemming from the Slavic 'želьe', meaning 'sting'. |
| Somali | The Somali word "aad" can also be used as a noun meaning "the beginning" or "the root". |
| Spanish | In Portuguese, "muy" means "very", while in Spanish it is a verb meaning "to milk" and in French an adverb meaning "very little". |
| Sundanese | The word "pisan" is also used in Sundanese to emphasize or to express certainty. |
| Swahili | Sana can also be an exclamation meaning 'wow!' or 'that is great!', and can also mean 'very much'. |
| Swedish | "Mycket" comes from the Middle Low German "mikel," (big) which in turn derives ultimately from Latin *magnus. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "napaka" can also mean "too much" or "excessive". |
| Tajik | The word "хеле" can also mean "especially" or "particularly" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | மிகவும் can mean either "very" or "exceedingly" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "చాలా" can also mean "enough" or "sufficient." |
| Thai | มาก can also mean 'heavy' and 'many' and derives from an old Khmer word for 'a lot' that also appears in Sanskrit. |
| Turkish | The word "çok" in Turkish originally meant "very"; however, it has also taken on the meaning of "many" in some contexts. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word “дуже” (“very”) can also be translated as “too” or “excessively” in English, depending on the context. |
| Urdu | Derived from Sanskrit 'bahuta', meaning 'great' or 'excessive', 'bahut' has also expanded to mean 'several' or 'many' in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "juda" in Uzbek is a borrowing from Persian and is cognate with the Persian word "juz" meaning "apart" or "separate". |
| Vietnamese | The word 'rất' can also mean 'moist; damp', or 'dense'. |
| Welsh | The word "iawn" is derived from the Welsh word "iawnh", meaning "complete" or "entire", and is also cognate with the Breton word "iaouank", meaning "young". |
| Xhosa | The term "kakhulu" also appears in the Zulu and Ndebele languages. |
| Yoruba | The word 'pupọ' can also mean 'many' or 'more,' depending on the context in which it is used. |
| Zulu | The word "kakhulu" in Zulu can also refer to a type of basket woven from grass or reeds. |
| English | The word "very" comes from the Old French word "verray," which also means "true." |