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recht

quite

adjective adverb REKHT Common
Descriptions & Qualities Degree

Also means

right

Usage Note

recht spans 'right/correct' and a hedging 'quite, fairly' (recht gut = 'fairly good'). Watch the key idioms: recht haben ('to be right'), jemandem recht geben ('to agree someone is right'), and the legal noun das Recht ('the law, the right').

Examples

"Du hast recht, das stimmt."

Natural Translation

You're right, that's true.

Literal Translation

You have right, that agrees.

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