Swedish English Dictionary

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rätt in English:

1. right right


It was right of Michael to tell you about it.
I am right.
Tom broke his right leg and was taken to hospital a few weeks before Christmas.
After slapping Tom's right cheek, Mary stomped on his left foot.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I don't think it's always right for local governments to submit to the central government.
We have a visitor right now. Would you mind waiting for a while?
I managed to find a parking place right in front of the building.
Where am I supposed to be right now? I can't find anyone in my group.
It may seem like a crazy idea, but I think we should go visit Tom and Mary right now.
Given her interest in children, I am sure teaching is the right career for her.
My mother disapproves of too much exercise right after lunch.
In Alaska you can see natural phenomena like the aurora, right?
You may be right, but we have a slightly different opinion.
I must have tried on everything in the shop, but nothing looked right on me.

English word "rätt"(right) occurs in sets:

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2. proper proper


proper person
When suddenly faced with a dangerous situation, hold your horses - make sure of the proper action, then act.
Not all geniuses are engineers, but all engineers are geniuses. The set of all engineers is thus an, unfortunately proper, subset of all geniuses.
Miss Baker knew that the young man would have to leave very soon, so she decided to ask him to move his car a bit, so that she could park hers in the proper place for the night before going to bed.
A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
She got herself through college telling people their fortunes as a phony psychic. She didn't even have a proper Tarot deck, but her clients didn't know the difference.
Just because it's a "safe day" I'm not going to make out like monkeys without protection. Isn't it the duty of loving sex to take proper care of contraception?
There were so few proper members in the badminton club that it was half-way between dead and 'on break'.
You have just won a prize of $5000 in a California state safety competition for proper use of your seatbelt.
1. It is absolutely the proper thing for my kind of appearance. / 2. Look, I don't think this is the proper occasion... / 3. There's a proper young man for my daughter. / 4. Mama finds it very proper and practical.
If everyone could pay close attention, please. I will now auscultate the patient. Make sure to note the proper procedure because you all will be practicing this tomorrow.
Oh, if only we could be as shy and timid in our shameful actions as we are in our proper ones!