Respectfully, Respectively

“I was born in 1910, in Paris. My father was a gentle, easy going person, a salad of racial genes: a Swiss citizen, of mixed French and Austrian descent, with a dash of the Danube in his veins. I am going to pass around in a minute some lovely, glossy-blue picture-postcards.

He owned a luxurious hotel on the Riviera. His father and two grandfathers had sold wine, jewels and silk, respectively.” –Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Respectfully is an adverb meaning with respect, in a respectful manner, in polite way.

Respectfully is derived from respect the noun. Respect has many meanings: honouring someone or something or somebody, showing gratitude, thankfulness, admiration, deferential behvaiour; courteous expression or attitude towards another person, or towards a symbol or an emblem of religion; a behaviour of a person that pleases another person; and giving regards.

As a verb, respect refers to showing respect towards others, and other things (religious to memorabilia), and other verb forms are respects, respected and respecting.

Give respect, take respect!

The derivatives of respect are respectability (noun), respectable, respectful, respected and respectant (adjectives), respectably (adverb), respecter (noun: respecters of elders are becoming less?).

The US President Barack Obama endeared himself to the global leaders by demonstrating due respect like bending himself respectfully when he met the Japanese monarchy.

Respectively means in the order stated; in that order.

The largest countries in the world in terms of surface area are Russia, Canada, United States, China, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhastan, Algeria, Congo (Democratci Republic of the Congo), Greenland, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Indonesia…respectively.

Respectively, here means that the largest country in the world is Russia (1), followed by Canada (2), United States (3), China (4), Brazil (5), Austalia (6), India (7)…

The largest countries in the world in terms of population are China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia and Japan having a population of 1.37 billion, 1.25 billion, 323 million, 258 million, 206 million, 192 million, 186 million, 162 million, 146 million, and 126 million respectively in 2016.

It means Russia has a population of 146 million (14.6 crores) and Japan has 126 (12.6 crores) among other facts i.e. Brazil has the world’s fifth largest population in the world followed by Pakistan and preceded by Indonesia.

The six buckets for filling water were placed in a row which were named as Sita, Sara, Sonia, Joseph, Mohammed, and Mari respectively i.e. the first bucket belonged to Sita and the last one to Mari.

Behaving respectfully to elders is a sign of good behaviour, irrespective of cultures!

By: Kovuuri G Reddy