right away

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Adverb

right away (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Very soon; quickly; immediately.

   This item is urgent, so please start on it right away.

2. (dated) The traditional call to the driver of a train or other conveyance intimating that it is safe to move off immediately.

Synonyms

• at once
• forthwith
• immediately
• instantly
• now
• straight away
• tout de suite
• without delay

Derived terms

• right-away signal

Translations

very soon; immediately

• Arabic: فَوْرًا‎ (fawran)
• Belarusian: адра́зу (adrázu)
• Catalan: de seguida
• Cherokee: ᎲᎴᏊ (hvlequu)
• Cheyenne: sé'ea'e
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬上 (zh), 马上 (zh) (mǎshàng), 立刻 (zh) (lìkè)

• Czech: rovnou (cs)
• Danish: straks (da)
• Esperanto: tuj (eo)
• Finnish: oikopäätä, pikimmiten (fi), heti (fi), saman tien
• French: tout de suite (fr), sur le champ (fr), séance tenante (fr), aussi sec (fr)
• Galician: inmediatamente, deseguida, decontado, axiña
• German: sofort (de)
• Greek: αμέσως (el) (amésos), τάκα-τάκα (táka-táka)
• Hausa: nan take
• Hebrew: מיד‎
• Hindi: फ़ौरन (fauran), तुरंत (hi) (turant)
• Hungarian: azonnal (hu), rögtön (hu), nyomban (hu), máris
• Ido: quik (io)
• Interlingua: immediatemente, jam (ia)

• Italian: subito (it), immediatamente (it), al più presto
• Japanese: すぐ (ja) (sugu)
• Korean: 곧 (ko) (got), 즉시 (ko) (jeuksi)
• Navajo: haneetehee
• Persian: فوراً‎ (fa) (foran), بلافاصله‎ (fa) (belâfâsele)
• Plautdietsch: fuaz
• Polish: natychmiast (pl)
• Portuguese: na hora (pt)
• Romanian: imediat (ro), neîntârziat (ro), direct (ro)
• Russian: сра́зу (ru) (srázu), сейча́с (ru) (sejčás), сейча́с же (ru) (sejčás že) (emphatic), то́тчас (ru) (tótčas), сию́ мину́ту (ru) (sijú minútu)
• Spanish: inmediatamente (es), sin demora, enseguida (es), al tiro (es) (Chile, informal)
• Swedish: genast (sv), ögonblickligen (sv), på direkten (sv), på en gång (sv), med en gång (sv)
• Tajik: фавран (favran), якбора (tg) (yakbora)
• Thai: ทันที (th) (tan-tii), ทันใด (th) (tan-dai)
• Ukrainian: за́раз (uk) (záraz), відра́зу (vidrázu)
• Urdu: فوراً‎ (fauran)
• Westrobothnian: wä dä sȯmma
• Yiddish: תּיכּף‎ (teykef)