correct, right · upright, honest · whole, complete, entire, exact
çekim: karşılaştırma درستتَر · üstünlük درستتَرین
zıt: نادرست
köken: From Middle Persian drw(y)st' (drust, “right; well, healthy”), from Old Persian *dᵘruvišta, from Proto-Iranian *druwištah. Compare Baluchi دْراه (drāh, “well, healthy”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese certo, from Latin certus (“certain”), past participle of cernō (“to sift; to discern”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to move; to separate”).
köken: Japanese phrasebook This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness. /sau/ → /sɔː/ → /soː/
isn't it so?; right? · a sentence-final ending used when the speaker rhetorically confirms something they already knew, in order to cross-check the information
very, rather, quite · exactly, precisely, just · completely, totally
köken: From Proto-Finnic *aivan (an instructive singular, compare ihan), probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háywas, or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“long time”). Cognate with Votic aiva (“always”) and Estonian aiva (“always”).
çekim: karşılaştırma igazabb · üstünlük legigazabb
zıt: hamis, hazug, valótlan
köken: First attested in the middle of 13th century. Native word, probably a derivation. Its base word is presumably jóg (“right hand”), an older variant of jog (“law”). Its ending is the obsolete noun-forming suffix -z. For the ending, compare száraz. For the word-initial shift from jo- to i-, compare inkább (“rather”) (older variant jonkább) and irgalom (“mercy”) (jorgat (“to have mercy”) found in…
not (negation, denial, refusal) · not (in a question, expecting a positive answer) · isn’t it so (postponed, turning an affirmative utterance into a question)
eş: ej, ikke sandt?, ikke også?
zıt: vel
köken: From Old Norse ekki (“not”), cognate with Jutish itt, Swedish icke, inte. The neuter of the Old Norse pronoun engi (“nobody, no”), see ingen.
aile: det ved jeg ikke, heller ikke, jeg forstår ikke, slet ikke