recht

Borrowed from German recht.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛxt]

recht

1. (colloquial) correct, suitable

   Tobě taky nic není recht. ― Nothing suits you. (You are hard to please.)

• “recht”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “recht”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /rɛxt/

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• Hyphenation: recht
• Rhymes: -ɛxt

From Middle Dutch recht, from Old Dutch reht, from Proto-West Germanic *reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós.

recht (comparative rechter, superlative rechtst)

1. right (direction)
2. straight

   Antonym: krom

   in een rechte lijn

   in a straight line

Declension of recht
uninflected	recht
inflected	rechte
comparative	rechter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		recht	rechter	het rechtst het rechtste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	rechte	rechtere	rechtste
	n. sing.	recht	rechter	rechtste
	plural	rechte	rechtere	rechtste
definite		rechte	rechtere	rechtste
partitive		rechts	rechters	—

• kaarsrecht
• rechtop (“upright, erect”)
• rechts

• Berbice Creole Dutch: rekti
• Jersey Dutch: rääxt
• Negerhollands: recht, rek, ret, tret, regt
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: tret (dated)
• → Papiamentu: rècht
• → Saramaccan: leti

From Middle Dutch recht, from Old Dutch reht, from Proto-West Germanic *rehta, from Proto-Germanic *rehtą, a substantive derivation of the adjective.

recht n (plural rechten, diminutive rechtje n)

1. a right, competence, authority, privilege

   Je hebt het recht niet om dat te doen!

   You don't have the right to do that!

2. justice

   Noemt u dit recht? Ik noem dit onrecht.

   Do you call this justice? I call this injustice.

   Deze kale vloer doet het huis geen recht aan.

   This boring floor doesn't do the house any justice.

3. jurisprudence, the law

   Het recht omtrent cybercriminaliteit is momenteel nog erg onduidelijk.

   Jurisprudence concerning cybercrime is currently still very unclear.

   Het recht heeft beslist.

   The law has decided.

4. a formal fee, custom, duty to be paid

• Afrikaans: reg
• Negerhollands: recht, regt
• → Caribbean Javanese: rèh
• → Saramaccan: leti

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

recht

1. inflection of rechten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

From Middle High German rëht, from Old High German reht, from Proto-West Germanic *reht (“right, straight”).

• (Germany) IPA^(key): /ʁɛçt/, [ʁɛçtʰ]
• (Austria, Switzerland) IPA^(key): /rɛçt/, [rɛçtʰ]
• Rhymes: -ɛçt

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recht (strong nominative masculine singular rechter, comparative rechter, superlative am rechtesten or (very rare) am rechtsten)

1. right (direction)
2. proper, correct
3. true, real
4. just, lawful

• rechte Hand f (“right hand; right hand, right-hand man”)
• rechter Winkel

recht

1. very, quite, rather, pretty, fairly

   Es ist recht warm heute Abend. ― It's quite warm tonight.

   recht klein ― smallish

2. well, right

   ganz recht ― that's right

3. exactly

• Recht n (“a right, privilege; a title, claim; the law”)
• recht haben

• “recht” in Duden online
• “recht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Middle High German rëht, from Old High German reht. Compare German recht, Dutch recht.

• IPA^(key): /reçt/

recht (comparative rechter, superlative rechtest)

1. right

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Old Dutch reht, from Proto-West Germanic *reht.

recht

1. straight, not bent
2. upright
3. right, exact
4. righteous
5. lawful, rightful
6. true

Adjective
		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Nominative	Indefinite	recht	rechte	recht	rechte
	Definite	rechte		rechte
Accusative	Indefinite	rechten	rechte	recht	rechte
	Definite			rechte
Genitive	Indefinite	rechts	rechter	rechts	rechter
	Definite	rechts, rechten		rechts, rechten
Dative		rechten	rechter	rechten	rechten

• Dutch: recht
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: rekti
  • Jersey Dutch: rääxt
  • Negerhollands: recht, rek, ret, tret, regt
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: tret (dated)
  • → Papiamentu: rècht
  • → Saramaccan: leti
• Limburgish: rèch

From Old Dutch reht, from Proto-West Germanic *reht, a substantive derivation of the adjective.

recht n

1. law, right, duty
2. righteousness, justness
3. justice, jurisprudence, law
4. jurisdiction
5. right, what one is entitled to by law
6. truth

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: recht
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: rekti
  • Jersey Dutch: rääxt
  • Negerhollands: recht, rek, ret, tret, regt
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: tret (dated)
  • → Papiamentu: rècht
  • → Saramaccan: leti
• Limburgish: rèch

• “recht (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “recht (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “recht (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “recht (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

Derivative of Old Irish recht (“law, lawfulness”)

recht

1. law-abiding person, person of legal status

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
recht	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “4 recht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• rect

• IPA^(key): /r͈ʲext/

From Proto-Celtic *rextus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-tus. Cognate with Welsh rhaith (“a right, entitlement”) (from Proto-Brythonic *rreiθ (“rule, law”)) and indirectly German Recht (“law”) (from Proto-Germanic *rehtą (“a right, privilege”)).

recht m (genitive rechto or rechta, nominative plural rechtae)

1. law

For quotations using this term, see Citations:recht.

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	recht, rect	rechtL, rect	rechtaeH, recte
Vocative	recht, rect	rechtL, rect	rechtu
Accusative	rechtN, rect	rechtL, rect	rechtu
Genitive	rechtoH, rect(t)oH, rec(h)ta	rechtoL, rect(t)oL, rec(h)ta	rechtaeN
Dative	rechtL, rect	rechtaib	rechtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• Irish: reacht
• Scottish Gaelic: reachd

Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną (“to care for, worry about”). If so, ultimately cognate to Etymology 1 above.^[1]

recht m

1. paroxysm, outburst (of anger, passion, etc.)

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	recht	rechtL	rechtaeH
Vocative	recht	rechtL	rechtu
Accusative	rechtN	rechtL	rechtu
Genitive	rechtoH, rechtaH	rechtoL, rechtaL	rechtaeN
Dative	rechtL	rechtaib	rechtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• rechtmar (“passionate, furious”, adjective)

• Irish: racht

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
recht also rrecht after a proclitic ending in a vowel	recht pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 recht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 recht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle High German rëht, from Old High German reht. Compare German recht, Dutch recht.

recht

1. right-hand

Borrowed from German recht.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛxt/
• Rhymes: -ɛxt
• Syllabification: recht

recht

1. right!

   Mosz recht. ― You're right.

• Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “recht”, in Słownik gwar śląskich, Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 244