properly

English

Etymology

proper +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

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

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• Hyphenation: prop‧er‧ly

Adverb

properly (comparative more properly, superlative most properly)

1. in a proper manner, appropriately, suitably; correctly, justifiably
   • 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.
3. (colloquial) Entirely; extremely; thoroughly.

   I was properly tired after that party.

Translations

in a proper manner

• Arabic: كَمَا يَجِب‎ (kamā yajib), كَمَا يَنْبَغِي‎ (kamā yanbaḡī)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: cabəca
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: правилно (bg) (pravilno), както трябва (kakto trjabva)
• 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: dece
• 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), vernünftig (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, appuntino (it), per bene, ammodo (it), adeguatamente (it)

• 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)
• Sanskrit: साधु (sa) (sādhu)
• Spanish: como es debido (es), como corresponde, como toca
• Swedish: ordentligt (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: належно (naležno), правильно (pravylʹno)
• Urdu: ٹھیک سے‎ (ur) (ṭhīk se)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• proprely

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Middle English

Adverb

properly

1. properly, appropriately
2. individually; in one's own manner
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:

     Now herkenyth how I bar me properly.