barely, just, just in time, by only a small margin
köken: Literally, “just still”.
🔊 Ich habe es gerade noch geschafft.
barely, scarcely, hardly
eş: juste, en tout et pour tout, rien que, seulement, ne pas faire semblant, énormément
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad poenam. Compare Italian appena, etc.
🔊 Il y a à peine trente personnes au concert ce soir.
🔊 À peine avait-il achevé ces paroles qu'une voiture s'arrêta devant la porte.
🔊 Nous avons à peine fait connaissance.
barely, hardly; with great effort or difficulty
hardly, scarcely
eş: con difficoltà, a stento, a fatica, stentatamente, faticosamente
köken: Univerbation of mala (“bad”) + pena. Emphasized form of appena.
hardly, barely
eş: amper, ternauwernood
köken: From Middle Dutch nauwelike. Equivalent to nauw + -lijks.
badly (in a faulty, dysfunctional or incorrect manner) · hardly; barely · wrong (incorrect)
çekim: çoğul males
eş: escassamente, insatisfatoriamente, pouco, custosamente, precariamente, equivocadamente
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese mal, from Latin male (“badly; wrongly”).
🔊 O carro está a funcionar/funcionando bem mal.
🔊 (O) João fala inglês mal.
🔊 Ele mal consegue estudar com todo este barulho.
almost, nearly
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 거ᅀᅴ (Yale: kezuy).
🔊 손님은 거의가 오셨습니다.
🔊 내 동생은 퇴근을 하면 남은 시간의 거의를 공부를 하는 데 쓰더라.
predicative superlative degree of knapp
🔊 Det är knappast hans fel
barely, hardly · recently, lately, newly, freshly, just
eş: ledwo, zaledwie
köken: Etymology tree Polish ledwo Polish -ie Polish ledwie From ledwo + -ie.
Barely, hardly. · Almost, nearly. · As soon as
🔊 Вона́ ледь змогла́ заве́ршити це завда́ння.
🔊 Дої́ж свій суп, він ледь те́плий!
🔊 Обере́жніше! Ти ледь мене́ не вбив!
inflection of थोड़ा (thoṛā): · direct/oblique/vocative masculine plural
hardly (barely, only just)
eş: stěží, taktak, těžko, ledva, bodej
köken: Inherited from Old Czech sotva. From sotně inspired by ledva.
hardly, barely (with difficulty) · hardly, barely, scarcely (in a very small measure) · only, just (no more than)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Vulgar Latin ad Proto-Indo-European *weyk- Proto-Italic *wiks Vulgar Latin vix Vulgar Latin *ad vix Romanian abi Romanian abia Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad vix, from ad + vix. The original form was abi, a variant found in some dialects; the final -a was added by analogy with adverbs like aci(a), aiure(a), acole(a). This suffixation…
aile: abia aștepta, de-abia
🔊 седерепᲄᲂуⷧ҇а҆бїасеспⷭ҇ъще. е҆некᲂураᲄᲂуⷧ҇шипъкъᲅосᲂуⷧ҇. ю҆ѡ҆̀севорꙋиви.
🔊 Шѝ а҆̀чѣс̾тѣ зикъ́нд̾, а҆биѧ̀ ѡ҆прн́рѫ премꙋлци́ме съ нꙋ фа́кѫ лꙋи жръ́твѫ.
🔊 Абі̆а аm пᲈtᲈt tіndе mъnа ка sъ sᲈn.
barely, hardly, scarcely
köken: Lexicalization of al (“lower part”) + -ig (terminative case suffix).
aile: alig-alig, aligha, alighogy, alig áll a lábán, alig vár
scarcely; hardly; by no means; not; not at all
köken: Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Cornish gow (“lie”).
aile: hauddum, haudquāquam
🔊 Haud ambiguē tum in eum, cui rēgnum dēstinābātur, ingessit probra.
🔊 Haud istūc rogō. Fuistīn līber? – Fuī. That's hardly what I’m asking about. Were you a freeman? – I was.
🔊 … super exuviās ēnsemque relictum / effigiemque torō locat, haud ignāra futūrī.
scant, scarce · brief, concise
çekim: çoğul knapper · tamlayan knaps
köken: Probably from Middle Low German knap, otherwise related to it. Further cognate with German knapp, Swedish knapp, Dutch knap.
just; recently; newly
köken: vừa + mới.
hardly, barely
köken: Cognate with Proto-Slavic *edъva (“barely”); see there for more.
aile: advos, vos ne vos, vos tik, vos vos
barely (by a small margin) · barely (almost not at all)
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad poenam, with an additional adverbial /-s/ (compare doncs < Latin tunc).
barely
🔊 Aínda ben non acabou e xa está a pedir máis.
🔊 Por eso arrigou aa présa sin deixar tempo a un suspiro, aínda ben non lle tocou a semente ao chan moído