Translation
right, correct
Examples
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You are entirely right.
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I thought he was wrong, but he was right.
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She was right about the danger.
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Both sides believe themselves to be right.
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Nobody wanted to admit that the other one was right.
Here is the distinction English hides under one word. is said of a person who is right, of a thing that is correct: but . Swap them and you have said that you are accurate as an object, which is nonsense, or that the answer holds a justified opinion, which is worse. Handily pravi exists as a verb, so says he is right in three syllables and no copula at all, and i means to justify something. a is wrong in the same person-shaped way.
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