personally

English

Alternative forms

• personly

Etymology

From Middle English personally, personely, personallich, personaliche, equivalent to personal +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/, /ˈpɜːs.nə.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝ.sə.nə.li/, /ˈpɝs.nə.li/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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Adverb

personally (comparative more personally, superlative most personally)

1. In a personal manner.
2. In person.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.

   • 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84:

     'There's a boy here who wants to speak to Miss Clara personally,' he announced.

3. Concerning oneself.

   I'm really annoyed with her, personally.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Roxton and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.

4. As a person.

   I like you personally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.

Derived terms

• personally attack
• take personally

 

Translations

in a personal manner

• Bulgarian: лично (bg) (lično)
• Catalan: personalment (ca)
• Estonian: isiklikult (et)
• Finnish: persoonallisesti (fi), henkilökohtaisesti (fi)
• French: personnellement (fr)
• Hungarian: (as an insult) (személyes) sértésnek/sértésként, magára (vesz)
• Italian: personalmente (it)
• Polish: osobiście (pl)
• Portuguese: pessoalmente (pt)
• Russian: ли́чно (ru) (líčno), персона́льно (ru) (personálʹno)
• Spanish: personalmente (es)

in person

• Armenian: անձամբ (hy) (anjamb)
• Bulgarian: лично (bg) (lično)
• Catalan: personalment (ca)
• Danish: personligt
• Dutch: eigenhandig (nl)
• Estonian: isiklikult (et), ise (et)
• Finnish: henkilökohtaisesti (fi)
• French: personnellement (fr)
• Galician: persoalmente, en persoa
• German: persönlich (de), personaliter
• Hungarian: személyesen (hu)
• Italian: come persona
• Portuguese: pessoalmente (pt)
• Russian: ли́чно (ru) (líčno), персона́льно (ru) (personálʹno)

concerning oneself

• Arabic: شَخْصِيًّا (šaḵṣiyyan)
• Catalan: personalment (ca)
• Danish: personlig (da)
• Finnish: henkilökohtaisesti (fi)
• French: personnellement (fr)
• Galician: persoalmente
• German: persönlich (de), personaliter
• Hungarian: személy szerint, (1st/2nd person) ami engem/téged illet, (3rd and formal 2nd person) ami őt/önt illeti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: personlig (no)

  Nynorsk: personleg

• Polish: osobiście (pl)
• Portuguese: pessoalmente (pt)
• Russian: ли́чно (ru) (líčno)
• Spanish: personalmente (es)

as a person

• Bulgarian: лично (bg) (lično)
• Catalan: personalment (ca)
• Danish: som person
• Finnish: henkilönä
• Hungarian: mint ember, emberileg (hu)
• Portuguese: pessoalmente (pt)
• Russian: ли́чно (ru) (líčno), персона́льно (ru) (personálʹno)