Engelsk adverb: really | |||
1. | really in accordance with truth or fact or reality | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | She was now truly American. A genuinely open society. They don't really listen to us. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | genuinely, truly | ||
2. | really in actual fact | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | To be nominally but not actually independent. No one actually saw the shark. Large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | actually | ||
3. | really in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | In truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire. Really, you shouldn't have done it. A truly awful book. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | in truth, truly | ||
Overordnet anvendelse | intensifier, intensive | ||
4. | really used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | She was very gifted. He played very well. A really enjoyable evening. I'm real sorry about it. A rattling good yarn. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | rattling, real, very | ||