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Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.li/ [General-American], /ˈpɹɒp.ə.li/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɹɒp.li/ [colloquial, dialectal] Audio: en-us-properly.ogg Forms: more properly [comparative], most properly [superlative]
Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒpəli Etymology: From proper + -ly. Etymology templates: {{af|en|proper|-ly|id2=adverbial}} proper + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} properly (comparative more properly, superlative most properly)
  1. in a proper manner, appropriately, suitably; correctly, justifiably Synonyms (suitably): duly Translations (in a proper manner): كَمَا يَجِب (kamā yajib) (Arabic), كَمَا يَنْبَغِي (kamā yanbaḡī) (Arabic), cabəca (Azerbaijani), behar bezala (Basque), правилно (pravilno) (Bulgarian), както трябва (kakto trjabva) (Bulgarian), 正確 (Chinese Mandarin), 正确 (zhèngquè) (Chinese Mandarin), 好好兒地 (Chinese Mandarin), 好好儿地 (hǎohāor de) (Chinese Mandarin), 適當地 (Chinese Mandarin), 适当地 (shìdàng de) (Chinese Mandarin), ordentligt (Danish), dece (Esperanto), oikein (Finnish), kunnolla (Finnish), proprement (French), correctement (French), convenablement (French), ordnungsgemäß (German), ordentlich (German), richtig (German), vernünftig (German), 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌱𐌰 (garēdaba) (Gothic), καταλλήλως (katallílos) (Greek), δεόντως (deóntos) (Greek), σωστά (sostá) (Greek), ठीक से (ṭhīk se) (Hindi), ठीक तरह से (ṭhīk tarah se) (Hindi), 𒀀𒀀𒊏 (a-a-ra) (Hittite), megfelelően (Hungarian), propriamente (Italian), in maniera appropriata (Italian), correttamente (Italian), con cognizione di causa (Italian), appuntino (Italian), per bene (Italian), ammodo (Italian), adeguatamente (Italian), 適切に (tekisetsu ni) (alt: てきせつに) (Japanese), យ៉ាងត្រឹមត្រូវ (yaang-trəm trəw) (Khmer), decōrē (Latin), ordentlig (Norwegian Bokmål), propriamente (Portuguese), до́лжным о́бразом (dólžnym óbrazom) (Russian), как сле́дует (kak slédujet) (Russian), хороше́нько (xorošénʹko) [colloquial] (Russian), пра́вильно (právilʹno) (Russian), соотве́тственно (sootvétstvenno) (Russian), साधु (sādhu) (Sanskrit), como es debido (Spanish), como corresponde (Spanish), como toca (Spanish), ordentligt (Swedish), належно (naležno) (Ukrainian), правильно (pravylʹno) (Ukrainian), нале́жним чи́ном (naléžnym čýnom) (Ukrainian), як слід (english: jak slid) (Ukrainian), ٹھیک سے (ṭhīk se) (Urdu), tử tế (Vietnamese)
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  2. (obsolete) individually; in one's own manner. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-properly-en-adv-bCyugdxN
  3. (colloquial) Entirely; extremely; thoroughly. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-properly-en-adv-lbyZ0VPj

Adverb [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|adverb}} properly
  1. properly, appropriately
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  2. individually; in one's own manner
    Sense id: en-properly-enm-adv-YAD-WOdD

Alternative forms

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          "word": "正確"
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          "roman": "zhèngquè",
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          "word": "kunnolla"
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          "word": "δεόντως"
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          "roman": "sostá",
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          "code": "hi",
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          "word": "𒀀𒀀𒊏"
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          "word": "megfelelően"
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          "sense": "in a proper manner",
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          "code": "it",
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          "word": "appuntino"
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          "alt": "てきせつに",
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          "roman": "dólžnym óbrazom",
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          "roman": "právilʹno",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.