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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)
- 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.