to err is human

English

To err is human.

Etymology

From Latin errāre hūmānum est.

Proverb

to err is human

1. Everyone makes mistakes.

Usage notes

• The phrase is often used as a part of a longer phrase in English, "to err is human; to forgive, divine" (Alexander Pope, "Essay on Criticism").

Translations

Everybody makes mistakes

• Arabic: كل ابن آدم خطاء (ar) (kull ibn 'aadam khataa') (lit.: every Adam's son err)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人非聖賢，孰能無過 (cmn), 人非圣贤，孰能无过 (cmn) (rén fēi shèngxián, shú néng wúguò)

• Czech: mýlit se je lidské (cs)
• Danish: det er menneskeligt at fejle (da)
• Dutch: vergissen is menselijk (nl)
• Faroese: tað er menniskjaligt at mistaka seg (fo)
• Finnish: erehtyminen on inhimillistä (fi)
• French: l'erreur est humaine (fr)
• German: Irren ist menschlich (de)
• Hungarian: tévedni emberi dolog (hu)
• Icelandic: það er mannlegt að skjátlast (is)
• Italian: errare è umano (it)
• Japanese: 誤るのが人間である (ja) (あやまるのがにんげんである, ayamaru no ga ningen dearu)
• Latin: errare humanum est (la), humanum est errare (la)
• Latvian: kļūdīties ir cilvēcīgi (lv)
• Lithuanian: visi daro klaidų (lt)
• Norwegian: det er menneskelig å feile (no)
• Persian: انسان جایزالخطاست (fa) (ensan jayezol khatast)

• Portuguese: errar é humano (pt)
• Russian: человеку свойственно ошибаться (ru) (čelovéku svójstvenno ošibát'sja)
• Serbo-Croatian: grijéšiti jȅ ljùdski (sh)
• Somali: qof waliba wuu gefaa (so)
• Spanish: errar es humano (es)
• Swedish: det är mänskligt att fela (sv)
• Turkish: herkes hata yapar (tr), hatasız kul olmaz (tr)