isn't it so

English

English phrasebook

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Phrase

isn't it so?

1. Isn't it true?

   Synonym: right?

2. Isn't it that way?

Translations

isn't it so?

• Arabic: أَلَيْسَ كَذٰلِكَ؟ (ʔa-laysa ka-ḏālika?), نَعَمْ؟ (ar) (naʕam?)

  Egyptian Arabic: مش كده؟ (miš kida?)

• Bikol Central: bakong iyo?
• Catalan: oi? (ca)
• Chinese:

  Literary Chinese: 非歟？

  Hokkien: 著無？／著无？ (tio̍h bô?), 是抑無？／是抑无？ (sī a̍h bô? / sǐ á bô?), 是毋是？ (sī m̄-sī / sǐ m̄-sǐ?)

  Mandarin: 是不是？ (zh) (shì bú shì?), 對不對？／对不对？ (zh) (duì bù duì?), 不是嗎？／不是吗？ (zh) (bùshì ma?)

• Czech: že jo?
• Danish: ikke sandt?, eller hvad, ikke (da)
• Dutch: nietwaar? (nl)
• Esperanto: ĉu ne?
• Finnish: eikö totta
• French: n’est-ce pas ? (fr), non ? (fr)
• Galician: non? (gl), non si?
• German: nicht wahr?, oder? (de)
• Hindi: न? (hi) (na?)
• Hungarian: ugye? (hu), nem igaz?, igaz? (hu), nemdebár?, nem így van?
• Icelandic: er það ekki?, eða hvað?, ekki satt?
• Ido: ka ne?
• Interlingua: nonne?
• Japanese: ね？ (ja) (ne?), そうではないですか (sō de wa nai desu ka?)
• Kapampangan: ne?, ewari na?, alika?, aliya?
• Korean: 죠? (-jo?), 않니? (anni?)
• Persian: مگر نه (magar na)
• Polish: czyż nie
• Portuguese: não é?, né? (pt)
• Romanian: nu-i așa?
• Russian: не та́к ли? (ne ták li?), не пра́вда ли? (ne právda li?), ра́зве не та́к? (rázve ne ták?)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зар не?

  Roman: zar ne?

• Spanish: ¿no? (es), ¿a que sí?
• Swedish: eller hur? (sv), inte sant?
• Tagalog: hindi ba?, 'di ba? (tl)
• Thai: ไม่ได้ (mâi dâai), หรือครับ (rʉ̌ʉ kráp) (male speaker), หรือคะ (rʉ̌ʉ ká) (female speaker), ใช่ไหม (châi mǎi)
• Turkish: değil mi?
• Vietnamese: phải không?, có phải không?

See also

• Appendix:English tag questions

Further reading

• “isn't it so” in Idioms and phrases, TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Sintoist, sits on it