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Hungarian
Etymology
alig (“barely”) + alig (“barely”)
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: alig-‧alig
- Rhymes: -iɡ
Adverb
alig-alig
- 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
- 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 Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).