едва
| как
| едва | |
| gen. | hardly; scarcely; no sooner; nearly; just; scarce |
| как | |
| gen. | hardly when; upon that; like; as a; but; except |
| context. | be analogous to |
| math. | neither more nor less than |
| как! | |
| gen. | but |
| как? | |
| gen. | where |
| |||
| hardly (almost no, none, never etc.; only just; almost not); scarcely (only just; not quite); no sooner; nearly; just (I just caught the train – я едва (еле-еле) поспел на поезд; often with only; barely • We have only just enough milk to last till Friday; I just managed to escape; You came just in time); scarce; lightly; by a narrow margin; only just; by a narrow squeak (Anglophile); by a finger's breadth (Anglophile); scarсely (last_tochka); scant (Russian geologists estimate the blocks offered to Eni in Wednesday’s agreement hold about 36 billion barrels of oil or the equivalent in natural gas, though they have been only scantly explored. Alexander Demidov); subtly (vernerhalt); barely (scarcely or only just • We have barely enough food); have a hard time (I had a hard time finding where you live 4uzhoj); anear; just (Alex_Odeychuk); slightly; scantly (Russian geologists estimate the blocks offered to Eni in Wednesday’s agreement hold about 36 billion barrels of oil or the equivalent in natural gas, though they have been only scantly explored. NYT Alexander Demidov); almost before (almost before he finished speaking – едва он кончил говорить Stas-Soleil); ill (ли); faintly (Lavrov); a touch (Abysslooker); by the skin of one's teeth (very narrowly; only just); within an inch of (almost; very near(ly)) | |||
| no sooner than | |||
| by a nose | |||
| by the hair of one's chinny-chin-chin (VLZ_58); by the skin of one's teeth (удасться, суметь, успеть • He escaped from the secret police by the skin of his teeth. • I passed the test by the skin of my teeth. Aleksei Svetailo) | |||
| barely (достаточный • barely enough for their needs Val_Ships) | |||
| narrowly; near | |||
| just a little | |||
| hardly | |||
| appena | |||
| scant | |||
| well-nigh | |||
| marginally (tavost) | |||
| jimp | |||
| little; in a pig's eye | |||
|
едва : 891 phrases in 53 subjects |
| Advertising | 1 |
| American usage, not spelling | 11 |
| Astronomy | 2 |
| Australian | 1 |
| Aviation | 2 |
| Aviation medicine | 3 |
| Bookish / literary | 1 |
| Botany | 1 |
| British usage, not spelling | 1 |
| Business | 2 |
| Chess | 7 |
| Cinematography | 1 |
| Cliche / convention | 1 |
| Clothing | 1 |
| Cooking | 1 |
| Economics | 1 |
| Electrochemistry | 1 |
| Emphatic | 6 |
| Energy industry | 1 |
| Figurative | 7 |
| Formal | 1 |
| General | 520 |
| Geology | 1 |
| Idiomatic | 10 |
| Immunology | 1 |
| Informal | 23 |
| Latin | 1 |
| Linguistics | 2 |
| Literature | 2 |
| Makarov | 208 |
| Mass media | 3 |
| Materials science | 1 |
| Mathematics | 27 |
| Medical | 3 |
| Mining | 1 |
| Nautical | 1 |
| Obsolete / dated | 2 |
| Patents | 1 |
| Poetic | 1 |
| Police | 2 |
| Proverb | 1 |
| Psychology | 4 |
| Quality control and standards | 2 |
| Quotes and aphorisms | 1 |
| Radioengineering | 4 |
| Rhetoric | 2 |
| Sakhalin | 1 |
| Scientific | 1 |
| Slang | 4 |
| Sports | 1 |
| Technology | 5 |
| Vernacular language | 1 |
| Wood processing | 1 |