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Swedish
Pronunciation
Adjective
knappast
- predicative superlative degree of knapp
Adverb
knappast (not comparable)
- hardly, scarcely (certainly not)
Det är knappast hans fel- It's hardly his fault (intuitively, "No way it's his fault")
- (now uncommon) barely, scarcely (almost not)
Usage notes
Still common in (sense 2) in the dictionaries from the Swedish Academy when designating a word or sense as rare or as rarely appearing in the plural – perhaps for historical reasons. This is potentially confusing for native speakers, who are likely to interpret "knappast" as "certainly not" in contemporary Swedish.
Interjection
knappast
- no way!, I don't think so!
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