practice makes perfect

English

Proverb

practice makes perfect

1. If one practices an activity enough, one will eventually master it.

Translations

if one practices an activity enough, one will eventually master it

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 熟能生巧 (suk⁶ nang⁴ sang¹ haau²)

  Mandarin: 熟能生巧 (zh) (shú néng shēng qiǎo)

• Czech: opakování matka moudrosti
• Danish: øvelse gør mester
• Dutch: oefening baart kunst
• Esperanto: ekzercado lertigas
• Estonian: harjutamine teeb meistriks
• Finnish: harjoitus tekee mestarin
• French: usage rend maître, c'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron (fr)
• German: Übung macht den Meister (de)
• Hungarian: gyakorlat teszi a mestert (hu)
• Icelandic: æfingin skapar meistarann (is)
• Inari Sami: hárjehusat rahkada measttir
• Italian: la pratica rende esperti; sbagliando s'impara, val più la pratica della grammatica

• Japanese: 習うより慣れろ (narau yori narero)
• Latin: repetitio est mater studiorum
• Maltese: il-pratika tagħmlek perfett
• Norwegian Bokmål: øvelse gjør mester
• Persian: کار نیکو کردن از پر کردن است
• Polish: ćwiczenie czyni mistrza (pl), trening czyni mistrza
• Portuguese: a prática faz a perfeição
• Russian: повторе́ние мать уче́ния (povtorénije matʹ učénija), у кого́ сноро́вка, тот рабо́тает ло́вко (u kovó snoróvka, tot rabótajet lóvko), на́вык ма́стера ста́вит (návyk mástera stávit)
• Scottish Gaelic: is e an cleachdadh a nì teòma
• Serbo-Croatian: вежба чини мајстора (vežba čini majstora)
• Spanish: la práctica hace al maestro
• Swedish: övning ger färdighet (sv)
• Telugu: అభ్యాసం కూసు విద్య (abhyāsaṃ kūsu vidya)
• Urdu: گاتے گاتے کلاونت ہوجاتے ہیں (Gaate gaate Kala want ho jate hein)

References

• Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, ISBN 0-679-44554-4, p. 281.