comparative degree of bald / früh: sooner, earlier · rather · sooner, more readily, preferably; expresses a preference
eş: früher, lieber, wahrscheinlicher, mehr, vielmehr
köken: Chiefly from haplology of Middle High German ērer, from Old High German ēriro, from Proto-Germanic *airizô. Compare Dutch eerder. Likely conflated with Middle High German ēr, a rarer byform of ē (whence modern eh, ehe), from Old High German ēr, from Proto-Germanic *airiz, adverbial form of the above. Cognate with Dutch eer, English ere, Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐍃 (airis). The final /r/ was regularly lost in…
🔊 Es tut mir leid, aber ich konnte nicht eher kommen.
🔊 Es scheint eher unwahrscheinlich, dass sie je ins Ausland geht.
🔊 Eine Paketbombe, die Anfang vergangener Woche im Kanzleramt eintraf, war von eher geringer Sprengkraft.
earlier, sooner · rather, instead (indicating preference) · rather (introducing a correction or clarification)
köken: From Middle French plustost, see plus + tôt. Compare Italian piuttosto and Catalan més aviat. Compare the etymology of English rather.
🔊 Je n'aime pas le rouge. Je prends plutôt le noir.
🔊 N'importe quoi plutôt que de faire face à la réalité.
🔊 Il y en aura assez, ou plutôt pas trop.
rather, slightly
eş: más precisamente
🔊 Es más bien pequeño
rather, somewhat, fairly · sooner
eş: alquanto, abbastanza, quasi, anziché, preferibilmente, invece
köken: Univerbation of più + (archaic) tosto (adverb). Compare French plutôt and Catalan més aviat.
🔊 è piuttosto insolito
Rusça 🔊 вероя́тно , лу́чше , наве́рно , скоре́е
Arapça 🔊 بِالْأَحْرَى , رُبَّمَا , مِن اَلْمُحْتَمَل
apparently, probably (often used with ki)
köken: From Arabic يَقِين (yaqīn, “certainty”).
🔊 Yəqin ki, işə gec başlamısan, ona görə vaxtında çatdırmamısan.
🔊 -Dostun hanı, niyə gəlmədi? - Yəqin yoldadır.
possibility
çekim: çoğul ehtimollar
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian احتمال (ihtimāl), from Arabic اِحْتِمَال (iḥtimāl).
aile: ehtimollik
comparative degree of lief
before (at an earlier time) · in the past; previously · preferably, better, rather
eş: anteriormente, primeiro, primeiramente
zıt: depois, futuramente
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese antes, from ante with the adverbial -s, the former from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti.
aile: antes que, antes tarde do que nunca, dantes, o quanto antes, quanto antes
🔊 Antes só do que mal acompanhado.
rather · rather, more precisely · rather, somewhat fairly
köken: From Ancient Greek μᾶλλον (mâllon) (Comparative form of μάλα (mála)).
aile: μάλλον έκανε λάθος, πόσο μάλλον, πόσω μάλλον, μάλλον παρά
🔊 Δεν ήθελα να φύγω. Ή μάλλον, ήθελα, αλλά όχι μόνος μου.
🔊 Αυτό το πεπόνι είναι μάλλον άγευστο.
🔊 Είμαι ο μόνος εδώ μάλλον που δεν του αρέσει η ροκ μουσική.
主に敷物として用いるために、稲藁、藺草、竹を編んだもの。
probably · presumably
köken: antaglig (“probable”) + -en (adverbial suffix). Compare Danish and Norwegian Bokmål antagelig, whence also Norwegian Nynorsk antakeleg.
🔊 Jag skulle antagligen förlora
🔊 – Det var nog måsen som åt upp massäcken. – Jo, antagligen.
expresses confidence but not certainty; probably; I think, I guess · delimiting particle; only, just, merely
çekim: çoğul chyby · tamlayan chyby
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷsewbʰ-der. Proto-Slavic *xybъ Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ā́ˀtei Proto-Slavic *-ati Proto-Slavic *xybati Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei Proto-Slavic *-iti Proto-Slavic *xybitideverb. Proto-Slavic *xyba Old…
🔊 On ta dzieci ni ma, chyba jednę córkę.
Ukraynaca 🔊 імові́рно , ймові́рно , кра́ще , пе́вно , ра́дше , скорі́ше
probably, presumably
köken: luultava + -sti
likely, probable (likely)
köken: From Old French probable, from Latin probābilis (“that may be proved, credible”). Equivalent to proba + -bil.
rather, more (preferably, more gladly/willingly)
aile: leginkább, mindinkább
İbranice 🔊 כנראה /kaniʁˈ(ʔ)e/ apparently, seemingly · probably
köken: From כְּ־ (k'-, “like, as”) + הַ־ (ha-, “the”) + נִרְאֶה (nir'é, “apparent”).
🔊 כנראה שלא נגמר.
🔊 הוא הפסיק, כנראה בגלל הרעש.
perhaps, possibly, maybe · approximately
köken: De Vaan suggests a contraction of forte esse.
🔊 Fortāsse dīcēs: Quid ergō? haec in tē sunt omnia?
🔊 […]fīunt per triennium 𐆘 fortāsse D mīlia.
rather (preference)
köken: Originally the neuter of an adjective corresponding to Old Norse heldri (“bigger”), see heldr (“rather”).
aile: hellere end gerne
🔊 Jeg vil hellere til Sydafrika.
Norveççe 🔊 antakeligvis , fortrinnsvis , heller , sannsynlig , snarere , trolig
possibility · likelihood: · the probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter
çekim: çoğul kemungkinan-kemungkinan
köken: From mungkin (possibly, perhaps) + ke- -an.
maybe; perhaps; probably; possibly
köken: có (“to have”) + lẽ (“reason; fact”).
🔊 Có lẽ hắn chưa biết bố hắn vô tù.
Bulgarca 🔊 вероя́тно , за предпочитане