Engelsk adverb: hardly | |||
1. | hardly only a very short time before | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | They could barely hear the speaker. We hardly knew them. Just missed being hit. Had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open. Would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | barely, just, scarce, scarcely | ||
2. | hardly almost not | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He hardly ever goes fishing. He was hardly more than sixteen years old. They scarcely ever used the emergency generator. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | scarcely | ||