rechts

• IPA^(key): /rɛxts/

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• Hyphenation: rechts
• Rhymes: -ɛxts

From recht (“correct”, obsolete sense) +‎ -s (adverbial suffix). Just as in English, the sense “on the right-hand side” developed from the idea that since most people are right-handed, that is the ‘correct’ side.^[1]

rechts

1. on the right

   Zie je die auto rechts?

   Do you see the car on the right?

2. to the right

   Bij het volgende verkeerslicht rechts afslaan.

   Turn right at the next traffic light.

   We gaan naar rechts.

   We're going to the right.

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• Afrikaans: regs

From the adverbial sense “on the right” above. The adjectival meaning resulted in the obsolete spelling rechtsch.

rechts (comparative rechtser, superlative meest rechts or rechtst)

1. (not comparable) right

   Synonym: rechter

   Er zit een vlek op je rechtse schoen.

   There’s a spot on your right shoe.

2. rightist, belonging to the ideological right

   Dat zijn rechtse ideeën.

   Those are rightist ideas.

3. (predicatively) right-handed

   Synonym: rechtshandig

   Ik ben rechts, je kan niet met mijn pen schrijven.

   I'm right-handed, you cannot write with my pen.

• rechtsch (obsolete)

• Afrikaans: regs
• Berbice Creole Dutch: rekti

recht (“right”) +‎ -s (“adverbial suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛçt͡s/

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• Rhymes: -ɛçt͡s

rechts

1. on the right

   Siehst du das Auto rechts? ― Do you see the car on the right?

2. to the right

   An der nächsten Ampel rechts abbiegen. ― Turn right at the next traffic light.

3. the right-hand side

   Wir gehen nach rechts. ― We are going to the right.

4. pars pro toto for right-wing
5. pertaining to the political right

• rechts on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “rechts” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “rechts” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

From recht +‎ -s.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /reçt͡s/
• Hyphenation: rechts

rechts

1. right (opposite of left)
2. right (designed to be placed or worn outward)

• rechtsmache

rechts

1. on the right
2. to the right

Compare German rechts, Dutch rechts

rechts

1. right, to the right