certainly

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From Middle English certeynly; equivalent to certain + -ly.

225 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بِالتَّأْكِيد (bi-t-taʔkīd) — with certainty
• Bulgarian: си́гурно (sígurno) — with certainty
• Catalan: certament — with certainty
• Esperanto: certe — with certainty
• Finnish: varmasti — with certainty
• French: certainement — with certainty
• Galician: certamente — with certainty
• Greek: βεβαίως (vevaíos) — with certainty
• Ancient Greek: οὖν (oûn) — with certainty
• Hebrew: בוודאות (bevada'út) — with certainty
• Hungarian: biztosan — with certainty
• Hungarian: bizonyosan — with certainty
• Hungarian: határozottan — with certainty
• Italian: certamente — with certainty
• Latin: quippe — with certainty
• Middle English: certeynly — with certainty
• Norman: cèrtainement — with certainty
• Portuguese: certamente — with certainty
• Portuguese: garantidamente — with certainty
• Spanish: ciertamente — with certainty
• Spanish: dejuramente — with certainty
• Spanish: cierto — with certainty
• Spanish: al cierto — with certainty
• Spanish: de cierto — with certainty
• Spanish: en cierto — with certainty
• Spanish: de juro — with certainty
• Spanish: a juro — with certainty
• Spanish: certeramente — with certainty
• Tibetan: ངེས་པར (nges par) — with certainty
• Turkish: kesinlikle — with certainty
• Arabic: بِالتَّأْكِيد (bi-t-taʔkīd) — without doubt, surely
• Arabic: بِدُون شَكّ (bidūn šakk) — without doubt, surely
• Arabic: بِدُون نِقَاش (bidūn niqāš) — without doubt, surely
• Arabic: أكيد (ʔakīd) — without doubt, surely
• Armenian: անկասկած (ankaskac) — without doubt, surely
• Bashkir: әлбиттә (əlbittə) — without doubt, surely
• Belarusian: безумо́ўна (bjezumówna) — without doubt, surely
• Belarusian: кане́чна (kanjéčna) — without doubt, surely
• Belarusian: вядо́ма (vjadóma) — without doubt, surely
• Belarusian: бяссумне́нна (bjassumnjénna) — without doubt, surely
• Belarusian: напэ́ўна (napéwna) — without doubt, surely
• Bulgarian: безспо́рно (bezspórno) — without doubt, surely
• Bulgarian: несъмне́но (nesǎmnéno) — without doubt, surely
• Bulgarian: си́гурно (sígurno) — without doubt, surely
• Burmese: တကယ် (ta.kai) — without doubt, surely
• Catalan: certament — without doubt, surely
• Catalan: sens dubte — without doubt, surely
• Catalan: sense cap mena de dubte — without doubt, surely
• Chinese Mandarin: 當然 /当然 (dāngrán) — without doubt, surely
• Chinese Mandarin: 一定 (yīdìng) — without doubt, surely
• Czech: určitě — without doubt, surely
• Czech: nepochybně — without doubt, surely
• Czech: jistě — without doubt, surely
• Czech: samozřejmě — without doubt, surely
• Dutch: beslist — without doubt, surely
• Dutch: voorzeker — without doubt, surely
• Dutch: zeker — without doubt, surely
• Dutch: waarlijk — without doubt, surely
• Esperanto: certe — without doubt, surely
• Esperanto: sendube — without doubt, surely
• Finnish: todellakin — without doubt, surely
• Finnish: varmasti — without doubt, surely
• Finnish: epäilemättä — without doubt, surely
• French: certainement — without doubt, surely
• French: sûrement — without doubt, surely
• French: sans nul doute — without doubt, surely
• French: sans aucun doute — without doubt, surely
• Galician: abofé — without doubt, surely
• Galician: sen dúbida — without doubt, surely
• German: sicherlich — without doubt, surely
• German: zweifellos — without doubt, surely
• German: gewiss — without doubt, surely
• German: freilich — without doubt, surely
• German: gwüss — without doubt, surely
• Greek: βεβαίως (vevaíos) — without doubt, surely
• Greek: σίγουρα (sígoura) — without doubt, surely
• Greek: ασφαλώς (asfalós) — without doubt, surely
• Ancient Greek: οὖν (oûn) — without doubt, surely
• Hebrew: בוודאות (bevada'út) — without doubt, surely
• Hebrew: בוודאי — without doubt, surely
• Hindi: अवश्य (avaśya) — without doubt, surely
• Hungarian: mindenképpen — without doubt, surely
• Hungarian: feltétlenül — without doubt, surely
• Hungarian: kétségkívül — without doubt, surely
• Hungarian: kétségtelenül — without doubt, surely
• Hungarian: tényleg — without doubt, surely
• Ido: certe — without doubt, surely
• Interlingua: certo — without doubt, surely
• Italian: certamente — without doubt, surely
• Italian: senza dubbio — without doubt, surely
• Italian: non ci piove — without doubt, surely
• Japanese: 確かに (tashika ni) — without doubt, surely
• Japanese: 必ず (kanarazu) — without doubt, surely
• Japanese: 絶対に (zettai ni) — without doubt, surely
• Japanese: 確実に (kakujitsu ni) — without doubt, surely
• Korean: 확실히 (hwaksilhi) — without doubt, surely
• Central Kurdish: ئەکید (ekîd) — without doubt, surely
• Latin: certō — without doubt, surely
• Macedonian: сигурно (sigurno) — without doubt, surely
• Māori: āe rā — without doubt, surely
• Middle English: certeynly — without doubt, surely
• Norman: cèrtainement — without doubt, surely
• Panamint: nu'u — without doubt, surely
• Persian: بطور محرز — without doubt, surely
• Plautdietsch: zwoasch — without doubt, surely
• Pohnpeian: ahpw — without doubt, surely
• Polish: z pewnością — without doubt, surely
• Polish: pewnie — without doubt, surely
• Portuguese: certamente — without doubt, surely
• Portuguese: sem dúvida — without doubt, surely
• Romanian: bineînțeles — without doubt, surely
• Romanian: desigur — without doubt, surely
• Russian: коне́чно (konéčno) — without doubt, surely
• Russian: несомне́нно (nesomnénno) — without doubt, surely
• Russian: непреме́нно (nepreménno) — without doubt, surely
• Russian: безусло́вно (bezuslóvno) — without doubt, surely
• Russian: наверняка́ (navernjaká) — without doubt, surely
• Russian: бесспо́рно (besspórno) — without doubt, surely
• Serbo-Croatian: zacijelo — without doubt, surely
• Serbo-Croatian: sigurno — without doubt, surely
• Serbo-Croatian: doista — without doubt, surely
• Slovak: určite — without doubt, surely
• Slovak: samozrejme — without doubt, surely
• Slovak: iste — without doubt, surely
• Slovak: isto — without doubt, surely
• Spanish: ciertamente — without doubt, surely
• Spanish: sin duda — without doubt, surely
• Spanish: a todas luces — without doubt, surely
• Spanish: certeramente — without doubt, surely
• Spanish: dejuramente — without doubt, surely
• Swahili: maalum — without doubt, surely
• Swedish: säkerligen — without doubt, surely
• Swedish: utan tvekan — without doubt, surely
• Telugu: తప్పక (tappaka) — without doubt, surely
• Tibetan: ངེས་པར་དུ (nges par du) — without doubt, surely
• Tibetan: ཡིན་གཅིག་མིན་གཅིག (yin gcig min gcig) — without doubt, surely
• Tibetan: རྩོད་པ་མེད་པར (rtsod pa med par) — without doubt, surely
• Tibetan: གདོན་མི་འཚལ་བར (gdon mi 'tshal bar) — without doubt, surely
• Tibetan: གོར་མ་ཆག་པར (gor ma chag par) — without doubt, surely
• Tocharian B: nemcek — without doubt, surely
• Tocharian B: ṣñikek — without doubt, surely
• Turkish: kesinlikle — without doubt, surely
• Ukrainian: авже́ж (avžéž) — without doubt, surely
• Ukrainian: безсумні́вно (bezsumnívno) — without doubt, surely
• Ukrainian: неодмі́нно (neodmínno) — without doubt, surely
• Ukrainian: звича́йно (zvyčájno) — without doubt, surely
• Ukrainian: безумо́вно (bezumóvno) — without doubt, surely
• Ukrainian: напе́вно (napévno) — without doubt, surely
• Urdu: اوشیے (avaśye) — without doubt, surely
• Vietnamese: chắc chắn — without doubt, surely
• Yiddish: אַוודאי (avade) — without doubt, surely
• Arabic: بِالتَّأْكِيد (bi-t-taʔkīd) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Arabic: بِدُون شَكّ (bidūn šakk) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Arabic: بِدُون نِقَاش (bidūn niqāš) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Armenian: իհարկե (iharke) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Armenian: անշուշտ (anšušt) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Bulgarian: разби́ра се (razbíra se) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Catalan: certament — emphatic affirmative answer
• Chinese Mandarin: 當然 /当然 (dāngrán) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Czech: určitě — emphatic affirmative answer
• Czech: nepochybně — emphatic affirmative answer
• Czech: jistě — emphatic affirmative answer
• Czech: zajisté — emphatic affirmative answer
• Dutch: beslist — emphatic affirmative answer
• Dutch: voorzeker — emphatic affirmative answer
• Dutch: zeker — emphatic affirmative answer
• Dutch: en of — emphatic affirmative answer
• Esperanto: jes ja — emphatic affirmative answer
• Esperanto: certe — emphatic affirmative answer
• Esperanto: kompreneble — emphatic affirmative answer
• Finnish: totta kai — emphatic affirmative answer
• Finnish: ilman muuta — emphatic affirmative answer
• Finnish: kyllä kiitos — emphatic affirmative answer
• French: certainement — emphatic affirmative answer
• French: bien sûr — emphatic affirmative answer
• French: pour sûr — emphatic affirmative answer
• French: évidemment — emphatic affirmative answer
• Galician: abofé — emphatic affirmative answer
• German: sicher — emphatic affirmative answer
• German: natürlich — emphatic affirmative answer
• Greek: βεβαίως (vevaíos) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Greek: ασφαλώς (asfalós) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Hebrew: בוודאי (be'vadai) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Hebrew: כַּמּוּבָן — emphatic affirmative answer
• Hungarian: hogyne — emphatic affirmative answer
• Hungarian: természetesen — emphatic affirmative answer
• Hungarian: feltétlenül — emphatic affirmative answer
• Hungarian: szívesen — emphatic affirmative answer
• Italian: certamente — emphatic affirmative answer
• Italian: evidentemente — emphatic affirmative answer
• Japanese: その通り (sono tōri) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Japanese: 全く (mattaku) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Japanese: 必ず (kanarazu) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Japanese: もちろん (mochiron) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Central Kurdish: ئەکید (ekîd) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Latin: certē — emphatic affirmative answer
• Māori: āpāia — emphatic affirmative answer
• Māori: apa ia — emphatic affirmative answer
• Māori: anaoa — emphatic affirmative answer
• Middle English: certeynly — emphatic affirmative answer
• Norman: pour saeure — emphatic affirmative answer
• Polish: na pewno — emphatic affirmative answer
• Polish: zdecydowanie — emphatic affirmative answer
• Portuguese: certamente — emphatic affirmative answer
• Portuguese: sem dúvida — emphatic affirmative answer
• Russian: коне́чно (konéčno) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Russian: несомне́нно (nesomnénno) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Russian: непреме́нно (nepreménno) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Russian: безусло́вно (bezuslóvno) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Serbo-Croatian: свакако — emphatic affirmative answer
• Serbo-Croatian: дакако — emphatic affirmative answer
• Serbo-Croatian: наравно — emphatic affirmative answer
• Serbo-Croatian: несумњиво — emphatic affirmative answer
• Serbo-Croatian: svakako — emphatic affirmative answer
• Serbo-Croatian: dakako — emphatic affirmative answer
• Serbo-Croatian: naravno — emphatic affirmative answer
• Serbo-Croatian: nesumnjivo — emphatic affirmative answer
• Spanish: por supuesto — emphatic affirmative answer
• Swedish: naturligtvis — emphatic affirmative answer
• Swedish: självklart — emphatic affirmative answer
• Swedish: utan tvekan — emphatic affirmative answer
• Swedish: självfallet — emphatic affirmative answer
• Tibetan: ཡིན་དང་ཡིན (yin dang yin) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Tibetan: ཡོད་དང་ཡོད (yod dang yod) — emphatic affirmative answer
• Tibetan: ངེས་སོ (nges so) — emphatic affirmative answer