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AdjektivAdverbInterjektionSubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen

  • Kanada//kəˈɹɛkt//
  • Australien//kəˈɹekt//
  • Schottland//kəˈɾɛkt//

Free from error; true; accurate.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    Free from error; true; accurate.

    Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10

    We all agreed they'd made the correct decision.

  2. 2

    With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

Herkunft

Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from con- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).

Adverb

  1. 1

    Correctly.

    Hope I spelt your name correct.

Interjektion

  1. 1

    Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A correct response.

    Having each day's rates of corrects and incorrects written next to the graph also makes it easier for you to check the […] If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or […]

Verb

  1. 1

    To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.

    You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.

    The navigator corrected the course of the ship.

    Her millions of adoring fans had yet to hear her speak, and when she finally did, she sounded more like a sailor than a starlet, spewing a profanity-laced, G-dropping Brooklynese that no amount of dialect coaching could correct.

  2. 2

    To grade (examination papers).

    The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.

  3. 3

    To inform (someone) of their error.

    It's rude to correct your parents.

  4. 4

    To discipline; to punish.

Herkunft

From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.

Formen

Plural
corrects
Komparativ
more correct
Superlativ
most correct
Präteritum
corrected
Partizip II
corrected
Partizip I
correcting
3. Person Singular
corrects
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