English
rank|master|latter|fellow|592|hardly|wind|drew|strength
Pronunciation
IPA|/�h�rdli/
SAMPA|/"hArdli/
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Adverb
hardly
- barely, just, almost not
#:I hardly ever watch television.
#:I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather.
- harshly, severely
#:I can't really deal hardly with people.
Usage notes
In sense 1. it is grammatically a negative word. It therefore collocates with ever rather than never.
Compare example sentence with I almost never watch television
Synonyms
barely
scarcely
rarely
seldom
Translations
trans-top|barely (1)
Catalan: a penes
Danish: knap
Dutch: nauwelijks
Esperanto: apenaÅ
Faroese: neyvan
Finnish: tuskin, töin tuskin, hädin tuskin
French: guère, à peine
trreq|Friulian
German: kaum
Icelandic: með naumindum, naumlega, ekki meira en svo, varla, tæplega, með erfiði, með fyrirhöfn
Ido: apene
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trreq|Interlingua
Italian: appena
Kurdish: KUchar|ئاست���, KUchar|جارجار
trreq|Occitan
Portuguese: quase não
trreq|Provençal
Romanian: t|ro|abia
Spanish: apenas
Swedish: knappast, knappt
trreq|Yiddish
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trans-top|harshly (2)
Icelandic: af hörku, hakalega
Portuguese: severamente
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ttbc|Croatian: tek
ttbc|Italian: quasi, mica
ttbc|Latin: dure|dūr�
ttbc|Norwegian: så vidt
es:hardly
fr:hardly
io:hardly
it:hardly
hu:hardly
ja:hardly
fi:hardly
te:hardly
vi:hardly
zh:hardly
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