једва

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *(j)edъva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jêdʋa/
  • Hyphenation: јед‧ва

Adverb

је̏два (Latin spelling jȅdva)

  1. barely, hardly, scarcely
    • 1984, Slobodan Milošević, Школа и Буна, page 11:
      Ова школа је настала у нусловима турске окупације и феудалне изолације у насељу које је једва испуњавало минимум европских критеријума за град.
      This school was created in the conditions of Turkish occupation and feudal isolation in a settlement that barely met Europe’s minimum criteria for a city.