alig-alig
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Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]alig (“barely”) + alig (“barely”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- barely, hardly, scarcely (to a limited extent)
- Alig-alig látok. ― I can barely see.
- with difficulty
- A két jelenséget alig-alig lehet megkülönböztetni. ― It's very hard to distinguish the two kinds of phenomena.
- barely (to emphasize the smallness of the named quantity or measure)
- Itt van mellettem, alig-alig egy méterre tőlem. ― It is right next to me, barely a meter from me.
Further reading
[edit]- alig-alig in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- alig-alig in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)