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English
Adjective
on time (comparative more on time, superlative most on time)
- Punctual or according to schedule.
Alternative forms
Prepositional phrase
on time (not comparable)
- Punctually or according to the schedule.
- The train arrived on time for the first time this week.
- By installments, payments over a period of time.
- They bought their dining-room furniture on time.
- (chess) By a player's running out of time.
- Smith beat Jones on time.
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punctually
- Bashkir: ваҡытында (vaqıtında)
- Bulgarian: навреме (bg) (navreme)
- Catalan: a l'hora (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 按時／按时 (zh) (ànshí), 準時／准时 (zh) (zhǔnshí)
- Dutch: op tijd (nl), stipt (nl)
- Esperanto: akurate
- Finnish: ajallaan (fi), ajassa (fi)
- French: à l’heure (fr), à temps (fr)
- Galician: á hora
- German: pünktlich (de), rechtzeitig (de)
- Greek: ακριβής (el) (akrivís)
- Hungarian: időben (hu)
- Italian: in orario
- Japanese: 時間通りに (じかんどおりに, jikandōri ni)
- Latin: temporī (la), tempore (la)
- Macedonian: навре́мено (navrémeno)
- Polish: na czas (pl), o czasie (pl), punktualnie (pl)
- Portuguese: a tempo e horas
- Romanian: la timp
- Russian: во́время (ru) (vóvremja)
- Serbo-Croatian: na vrijeme, pravovremeno (sh)
- Slovene: pravočasno
- Spanish: a tiempo (es)
- Swedish: i tid (sv)
- Turkish: vaktinde (tr), zamanında (tr)
- Ukrainian: вча́сно (včásno)
- Welsh: ar amser
- West Flemish: antydn
- Yiddish: בײַ צײַטנס (bay tsaytns)
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