correct

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɛkt/
Audio (US)
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Rhymes: -ɛkt
Hyphenation: cor‧rect

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from com- (“together”) + regere (“to make straight, rule”).

AdjectiveEdit

correct (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)

Free from error; true; accurate.
Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10

We all agreed they'd made the correct decision.
With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

SynonymsEdit

(free from error): right
(with good manners): well-mannered, well behaved

AntonymsEdit

(without error): incorrect, inaccurate
(with good manners): uncouth

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from correct (adjective)

TranslationsEdit

free from error

Ainu: ピㇼカ (pirka)
American Sign Language: 1@RadialHand-FingerForwardAcross-1@CenterChesthigh-FingerForwardAcross
Arabic: صَحِيح‎ (ar) (ṣaḥīḥ), صَوَاب‎ (ṣawāb)
Egyptian Arabic: صَح‎ (ṣaḥ)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܬܪܨ‎ (traṣ)
Armenian: ճիշտ (hy) (čišt)
Assamese: শুধ (xudho), শুদ্ধ (xuddho)
Asturian: correutu
Azerbaijani: doğru (az)
Bashkir: дөрөҫ (döröθ)
Belarusian: праві́льны (pravílʹny)
Breton: reizh (br)
Bulgarian: ве́рен (bg) (véren), пра́вилен (bg) (právilen)
Burmese: မှန် (my) (hman)
Catalan: correcte (ca), condret (ca)
Chamicuro: nanatolo
Cherokee: ᏚᏳᎪᏛᎢ (duyugodvi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 正確 (zh), 正确 (zh) (zhèngquè), 對 (zh), 对 (zh) (duì)

Min Dong: 正確, 正确 (ciáng-káuk)
Czech: správný (cs)
Danish: korrekt (da), rigtig (da)
Dutch: correct (nl), juist (nl)
Esperanto: ĝusta
Estonian: õige (et)
Faroese: rættur
Finnish: oikea (fi)
French: correct (fr)
Galician: correcto (gl)
Georgian: სწორი (sc̣ori), უშეცდომო (ušecdomo), ზუსტი (zusṭi)
German: korrekt (de), richtig (de), einwandfrei (de)
Gothic: 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃 (sunjis), 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 (raihts)
Greek: σωστός (el) (sostós)
Ancient: ὀρθός (orthós)
Hawaiian: pololei
Hebrew: נָכוֹן‎ (he) (nakhon), נְכוֹנָה‎ f (nekhona)
Hindi: सही (hi) (sahī), ठीक (hi) (ṭhīk)
Hungarian: hibátlan (hu), helyes (hu)
Icelandic: rétt
Indonesian: tepat (id)
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Italian: corretto (it), esatto (it)
Japanese: 正しい (ja) (ただしい, tadashii), 正解 (ja) (せいかい, seikai)
Kazakh: дұрыс (durıs)

Khmer: ត្រឹមត្រូវ (trəm trəv)
Korean: 옳다 (ko) (olta), 맞다 (ko) (matda), 바르다 (ko) (bareuda), 정확하다 (ko) (jeonghwakhada)
Kyrgyz: туура (ky) (tuura), түз (ky) (tüz), дурус (ky) (durus)
Lao: ແກ້ (lo) (kǣ), ຖືກ (thư̄k)
Latin: correctus
Latvian: pareizs
Lithuanian: teisingas
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: правилен (pravilen), верен (veren)
Malay: benar, betul
Maori: tika (mi)
Miyako: マツム (matumu)
Norwegian: riktig (no)
Occitan: corrècte, condrech (oc)
Old English: riht
Persian: درست‎ (fa) (dorost)
Plautdietsch: rajcht
Polish: prawidłowy (pl), właściwy (pl), poprawny (pl)
Portuguese: correto (pt), certo (pt)
Quechua: chanin
Rapa Nui: titika
Romanian: corect (ro)
Russian: пра́вильный (ru) (právilʹnyj), ве́рный (ru) (vérnyj), корре́ктный (ru) (korréktnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: исправан

Roman: ispravan (sh)
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: správny
Slovene: pravilen
Spanish: correcto (es)
Sundanese: leres
Swedish: korrekt (sv), riktig (sv), rätt (sv), felfri (sv)
Tagalog: tama
Tajik: дуруст (tg) (durust)
Thai: ถูก (th) (tùuk)
Turkish: doğru (tr)
Turkmen: dogry, dürs
Ukrainian: пра́вильний (uk) (právylʹnyj), коре́ктний (koréktnyj)
Urdu: صحیح‎ (sahīh), ٹھیک‎ (ur) (ṭhīk)
Uzbek: toʻgʻri (uz)
Vietnamese: đúng (vi)
Volapük: verätik (vo)
Welsh: cywir (cy)
Yiddish: ריכטיק‎ (rikhtik)
Zealandic: juust, sjuust, goed
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

with good manners

Armenian: կոռեկտ (hy) (koṙekt)
Bulgarian: възпи́тан (vǎzpítan), коре́ктен (bg) (korékten)
Czech: slušný (cs), korektní
Dutch: correct (nl), welgemanierd (nl), welopgevoed (nl), goedgemanierd
Finnish: korrekti (fi), asiallinen (fi)
Galician: correcto (gl)
German: einwandfrei (de), ordnungsgemäß (de), zutreffend (de)
Greek: σωστός (el) (sostós)
Hungarian: illő (hu), korrekt (hu)

Italian: corretto (it), ineccepibile (it)
Maori: tika (mi)
Portuguese: comportado (pt), educado (pt)
Romanian: corect (ro)
Russian: воспи́танный (ru) (vospítannyj), корре́ктный (ru) (korréktnyj)
Swedish: korrekt (sv)
Tagalog: wasto
Ukrainian: ви́хований (výxovanyj), ґре́чний (uk) (gréčnyj), коре́ктний (koréktnyj)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Ido: ^{(please verify)} korekta (io)
Slovak: ^{(please verify)} správny

Slovene: ^{(please verify)} pravilni

InterjectionEdit

correct

(India) Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
Synonym: OK

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.

VerbEdit

correct (third-person singular simple present corrects, present participle correcting, simple past and past participle corrected)

(transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
  Her millions of adoring fans had yet to hear her speak, and when she finally did, she sounded more like a sailor than a starlet, spewing a profanity-laced, G-dropping Brooklynese that no amount of dialect coaching could correct.
The navigator corrected the course of the ship.
(by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.
(transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
It's rude to correct your parents.
(transitive) To discipline; to punish.

SynonymsEdit

See also Thesaurus:repair

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from correct (verb)

politically correct

uncorrectable

TranslationsEdit

To make something become right that was previously wrong

Arabic: صَحَّحَ‎ (ṣaḥḥaḥa)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Basque: zuzendu
Bulgarian: поправям (bg) (popravjam), кориги́рам (bg) (korigíram)
Catalan: corregir (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 修正 (zh) (xiūzhèng), 改正 (zh) (gǎizhèng), 糾正 (zh), 纠正 (zh) (jiūzhèng)
Czech: opravit (cs)
Dutch: corrigeren (nl), verbeteren (nl)
Esperanto: korekti
Faroese: rætta
Finnish: korjata (fi), oikaista (fi)
French: corriger (fr)
Galician: correxir
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: ausbessern (de), korrigieren (de), richtigstellen (de), berichtigen (de), nachregeln Tech.
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (garaihtjan)
Greek: διορθώνω (el) (diorthóno)
Hebrew: תיקן‎ (he) (tikén)
Hindi: सही करना (sahī karnā)
Hungarian: kijavít (hu), helyesbít (hu), korrigál (hu)
Icelandic: leiðrétta (is)
Irish: beachtaigh, ceartaigh
Italian: correggere (it), emendare (it), rettificare (it)
Japanese: 正す (ja) (ただす, tadasu), 直す (ja) (なおす, naosu), 修正する (ja) (しゅうせいする, shūsei-suru), 改正する (ja) (かいせいする, kaisei-suru), 訂正する (ja) (ていせいする, teisei-suru)
Khmer: កែ (km) (kae)

Korean: 교정하다 (ko) (gyojeonghada)
Latin: corrigō, ēmendō (la)
Malay: benarkan, betulkan
Maori: tītere (someone's speech), whakatika
Mongolian: засах (mn) (zasah)
Old English: ġerihtan
Polish: poprawiać (pl) impf, poprawić (pl) pf
Portuguese: corrigir (pt)
Quechua: allichiy
Romanian: corecta (ro)
Russian: исправля́ть (ru) impf (ispravljátʹ), испра́вить (ru) pf (isprávitʹ), корректи́ровать (ru) (korrektírovatʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: cuir ceart, (e.g. teacher) comharraich
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: поправити

Roman: popraviti (sh)
Slovak: opraviť
Slovene: popraviti
Spanish: corregir (es)
Swedish: rätta (sv), korrigera (sv)
Thai: แก้ไข (th) (gɛ̂ɛ-kǎi)
Turkish: düzeltmek (tr)
Ukrainian: виправля́ти (vypravljáty), ви́правити pf (výpravyty), коригува́ти impf (koryhuváty), скоригува́ти pf (skoryhuváty)
Vietnamese: sửa (vi), chữa (vi), sửa chữa (vi)
Walloon: coridjî (wa), ricoridjî (wa)

to inform someone of their error

Italian: correggere (it), precisare (it), puntualizzare (it)

Maori: tītere

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Middle French correct, from Latin corrēctus.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /kɔˈrɛkt/
Audio
(file)
Hyphenation: cor‧rect
Rhymes: -ɛkt

AdjectiveEdit

correct (comparative correcter, superlative correctst)

correct

InflectionEdit

Inflection of correct
uninflected	correct
inflected	correcte
comparative	correcter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		correct	correcter	het correctst het correctste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	correcte	correctere	correctste
	n. sing.	correct	correcter	correctste
	plural	correcte	correctere	correctste
definite		correcte	correctere	correctste
partitive		corrects	correcters	—

SynonymsEdit

juist

Derived termsEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin correctus.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁɛkt/
Audio
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- (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁɛk/

AdjectiveEdit

correct (feminine singular correcte, masculine plural corrects, feminine plural correctes)

correct, right
Votre réponse est correcte. ― Your answer is correct.
(colloquial) passable, okay
Le restaurant auquel nous sommes allés était correct, sans plus.
The restaurant we went to was okay, but nothing more.
(Quebec, colloquial) OK, fine, alright
Chuis tellement désolé ! T'es correct ? ― I'm so sorry! You OK?

Ouais, c'est correct. ― Yeah, it's fine.

correct

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

AdjectiveEdit

SynonymsEdit

AntonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

InterjectionEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

Further readingEdit

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

InflectionEdit

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit