barely, just, just in time, by only a small margin
köken: Literally, “just still”.
🔊 Ich habe es gerade noch geschafft.
Situation de la balle qui touche légèrement la corde en passant par-dessus.
eş: de justesse, par la peau des dents
hardly, scarcely
eş: con difficoltà, a stento, a fatica, stentatamente, faticosamente
köken: Univerbation of mala (“bad”) + pena. Emphasized form of appena.
Rusça 🔊 едва́ , едва́-едва́ , е́ле , е́ле-е́ле , лишь , наси́лу /lʲiʂ/ only, merely, just · as soon as
eş: только, всего, единственно, исключительно, лишь только, только
köken: Old East Slavic лише (liše), originally comparative form of лихъ (lixŭ, “bad”). Compare with Ukrainian лише́ (lyšé), лишень (lyšenʹ) and лиш (lyš), Carpathian Rusyn лиш (lyš).
aile: всего лишь, лишь бы, лишь только, только лишь
🔊 лишь бы
🔊 лишь то́лько
scarcely, barely
köken: Inconclusive. Whilst its current definition was long thought to have come from Indonesian hampir due to its exclusive presence in Dutch (and no other Germanic language), this would not explain its high and almost universal usage in Flemish. More likely would be if it originated on Dutch soil. In that case, the meaning would have changed somewhat from the earlier Middle Dutch amper (“sour”) –…
🔊 Dat is amper de moeite waard!
only; just; merely (no more than) · barely (by a small margin)
köken: From Vulgar Latin *ad poenam, with an additional adverbial /-s/ (compare entrementes, ultimately from Latin interim).
παρά λίγο
eş: στο τσακ, ίσα που πρόλαβα
Japonca 🔊 ぎりぎり /ɡʲiɾʲiɡʲiɾʲi/ just barely, at the last minute
🔊 多くの若年がん患者は、抗がん剤治療などを受けながら就労して、ぎりぎりの生活を送っています。
barely · with difficulty
eş: 가까스로, 간신히, 고작
köken: First attested in the Beonyeok nogeoldae (飜譯老乞大 / 번역노걸대), 1517, as Middle Korean 계우 (Yale: kyeywu).
indefinite neuter singular of knapp
🔊 Det är knappt tre veckor kvar till presidentvalet.
🔊 Sommaren 2010 är knappt slut.
barely, hardly · recently, lately, newly, freshly, just
eş: ledwo, zaledwie
köken: Etymology tree Polish ledwo Polish -ie Polish ledwie From ledwo + -ie.
Ukraynaca 🔊 ле́две , лише́ , ті́льки
Çekçe 🔊 sotva , téměř vůbec /ˈsotva/ hardly (barely, only just)
eş: stěží, taktak, těžko, ledva, bodej
köken: Inherited from Old Czech sotva. From sotně inspired by ledva.
alternative form of de-abia
barely, hardly, scarcely
köken: Lexicalization of al (“lower part”) + -ig (terminative case suffix).
aile: alig-alig, aligha, alighogy, alig áll a lábán, alig vár
with difficulty, with effort; scarcely, hardly, barely · hardly, merely, just, scarcely
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyk- Proto-Italic *wiks Latin vix From Proto-Italic *wiks sg (nom.), *wiksu pl (“a turn, bend”, loc.), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-.
aile: vixdum
🔊 Vix crēdendum est...
🔊 […] vix feram sermōnēs hominum, sī id fēcerīs, vix mōlem istīus invidiae, sī in exsilium iussū cōnsulis ierīs, sustinēbō.
🔊 […] ; quamquam de gloria vix dicere ausim, si nos et hostes haud secus quam feminas abditos intra vallum omnibus contumeliis eludunt, et […]
barely, only just
🔊 Jeg overlevede på et hængende hår.
Norveççe 🔊 nesten ikke , på hengende håret , så vidt
Slovence 🔊 kọ̑maj , samo (eril) /sáːmɔ/ a male given name
faintly · scarcely · hardly