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Etymology
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From Middle English truely, treuly, treuli, trewely, treoweliche, treowliche, from Old English trēowlīċe (“faithfully; truly”), equivalent to true + -ly. Cognate with Dutch trouwelijk, Middle Low German truwlike, German treulich, Swedish trolig, Icelandic trygglega.
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truly (comparative trulier or more truly, superlative truliest or most truly)
- (manner) In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.
1946, Bertrand Russell, chapter I, in History of Western Philosophy, page 27:He adds, very truly, that what was fatal to such philosophies as his was not Christianity but the Copernican theory.
- (modal) Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really.
That is truly all I know.
Truly, that is all I know.
- (degree) Very.
You are truly silly.
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in accordance with the facts
- Assamese: সঁচাকৈ (xõsakoi)
- Bulgarian: вярно (bg) (vjarno), точно (bg) (točno)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 真正地 (zh) (zhēnzhèng de)
- Czech: pravdivě
- Esperanto: vere, fakte
- Finnish: todenmukaisesti, totuudenmukaisesti
- French: vraiment (fr)
- German: wirklich (de), wahrhaft (de)
- Greek: ειλικρινά (el) (eilikriná), αληθώς (el) (alithós)
- Ancient: ἀληθῶς (alēthôs)
- Hindi: वास्तव में (hi) (vāstav mẽ)
- Italian: accuratamente (it)
- Japanese: 事実のとおりに (ja) (じじつのとおりに, jijitsu no tōri)
- Jingpho: ăman
- Polish: autentycznie (pl), naprawdę (pl), serio (pl), szczerze (pl), prawdziwie (pl)
- Portuguese: verdadeiramente, corretamente (pt)
- Romanian: într-adevăr (ro)
- Russian: правди́во (ru) (pravdívo), и́скренне (ru) (ískrenne), че́стно (ru) (čéstno), ве́рно (ru) (vérno), и́стинно (ru) (ístinno)
- Sicilian: veraménti
- Spanish: verdaderamente (es)
- Telugu: నిజముగా (te) (nijamugā)
- Tocharian B: auspa
- Tok Pisin: tru
- Ukrainian: спра́вді (správdi), і́стинно (ístynno)
- Yup'ik: ilumun
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honestly, genuinely
- Bashkir: ысынлап та (ısınlap ta)
- Bulgarian: правдиво (bg) (pravdivo), искрено (bg) (iskreno)
- Catalan: veritablement (ca)
- Cherokee: ᎤᏙᎯᏳᎯ (udohiyuhi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 真實地／真实地 (zh) (zhēnshí de)
- Czech: opravdu (cs), doopravdy (cs)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: waarlijk (nl), oprecht (nl)
- Esperanto: vere
- Estonian: ausalt
- Finnish: todella (fi), tosiaan (fi)
- French: vraiment (fr)
- German: ehrlich (de), wirklich (de)
- Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐌹𐍃 (raihtis)
- Greek: πράγματι (el) (prágmati), όντως (el) (óntos)
- Ancient: ὄντως (óntōs)
- Hindi: वाक़ई (vāqaī), वास्तव में (hi) (vāstav mẽ)
- Hungarian: tényleg (hu), valóban (hu), igazán (hu)
- Italian: veramente (it)
- Japanese: 真実に (ja) (しんじつに, shinjitsu ni)
- Khmer: ពិតជា (pɨt cie)
- Korean: 정말 (ko) (jeongmal)
- Latin: vere (la), enim (la)
- Polish: autentycznie (pl), prawdziwie (pl), szczerze (pl), naprawdę (pl), serio (pl)
- Portuguese: verdadeiramente, realmente (pt)
- Romanian: sincer (ro), într-adevăr (ro)
- Russian: на са́мом де́ле (ru) (na sámom déle), действи́тельно (ru) (dejstvítelʹno), че́стно (ru) (čéstno) (honestly), и́скренне (ru) (ískrenne) (sincerely), по-настоя́щему (ru) (po-nastojáščemu)
- Spanish: verdaderamente (es)
- Tocharian B: auspa
- Tok Pisin: tru
- Ukrainian: спра́вді (správdi)
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