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Hungarian
Etymology
Lexicalization of kevés + -é (obsolete lative suffix, often lengthening the preceding consonant).[1] Sometimes analyzed as lexicalization of kevés + -vé. (Compare kissé, kevésbé, eléggé, továbbá, közzé, whether with -vé or with lengthening and -é.)
Pronunciation
Adverb
kevéssé (comparative kevésbé, superlative legkevésbé)
- (somewhat formal) little (not much, less than usual or required)
- Synonyms: kicsit, alig, kismértékben, nemigen
- Antonyms: nagyon, igen, rendkívül
- kevéssé ismert író ― a little-known writer
- construed with egy: somewhat (to a limited extent or degree)
- Synonyms: valamelyest, valamennyire
- Egy kevéssé beszélek angolul. ― I speak English somewhat.
Adjective
kevéssé
- translative singular of kevés
References
Further reading
- kevéssé 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