properly

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• proprely

EtymologyEdit

proper +‎ -ly

PronunciationEdit

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒ.pə.li/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: prop‧er‧ly

AdverbEdit

properly ‎(comparative more properly, superlative most properly)

1. in a proper manner
   • 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian^[1]:

     Hospitals are failing to care properly for the growing number of people with dementia, according to an NHS-funded report, which has prompted demands for big improvements to help patients.

2. (obsolete) individually; in one's own manner

   Now herkenyth how I bar me properly. — Chaucer.

TranslationsEdit

in a proper manner

• Arabic: كَمَا يَجِب ‎(kamā yajib), كَمَا يَنْبَغِي ‎(kamā yanbaḡī)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正確 (zh), 正确 (zh) ‎(zhèngquè), 好好兒地, 好好儿地 ‎(hǎohāor de), 適當地 (zh), 适当地 (zh) ‎(shìdàng de)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: oikein (fi), kunnolla (fi)
• French: proprement (fr), correctement (fr), convenablement (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: ordnungsgemäß (de), ordentlich (de), richtig (de)
• Greek: καταλλήλως (el) ‎(katallílos), δεόντως (el) ‎(deóntos), σωστά (el) ‎(sostá)
• Hindi: ठीक से (hi) ‎(ṭhīk se), ठीक तरह से ‎(ṭhīk tarah se)

• Hungarian: megfelelően (hu)
• Italian: propriamente (it), in maniera appropriata, correttamente (it), con cognizione di causa
• Japanese: 適切に (ja) ‎(てきせつに, tekisetsu-ni)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordentlig

• Portuguese: propriamente (pt)
• Russian: до́лжным о́бразом ‎(dólžnym óbrazom), как сле́дует ‎(kak slédujet), (colloquial) хороше́нько (ru) ‎(xorošénʹko), пра́вильно (ru) ‎(právilʹno), соотве́тственно (ru) ‎(sootvétstvenno)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: ٹھیک سے (ur) ‎(ṭhīk se)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can