hardly
/ˈhɑːdli/
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Open ah vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
har - dly -> hardly
(adv) နည်းနည်းမျှ။အနည်းငယ်မျှ။မည်သည့်အရာမျှ။မည်သည့်အခါမျှ။ ဖြစ်နိုင်ဖွယ်မရှိသောအခြေအနေကိုဖော်ပြရာတွင်သုံးသောစကား။မနိုင်။ မဖြစ်၊မဟုတ်၊မရှိ၊မပြုနိုင်။
၁။ အနည်းငယ်ပဲ။ သီသီလေးပဲ။ တားတားလေး ပဲ။ ပွတ်ကာသီကာပဲ။ I hardly know her. ကျွန်တော် သူ့ကို ကောင်းကောင်းမသိပါ။ ❍ We had hardly begun/ Hardly had we begun our walk when it began to rain. လမ်း စလျှောက်ခါရှိသေး မိုးကရွာတယ်။ ❍ Tom's hardly ten yet —It's too soon to think about careers! ဆယ်နှစ်တောင် မရှိသေးဘူး၊ ရှေ့လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်းစားဖို့ စောပါသေးတယ်။
၂။ (esp after can or could ) ရုံမျှ။ အနိုင်နိုင်။
I'm so tired I can hardly stay awake. ❍ We can hardly afford to run a car. ကားဝယ်ဖို့မတတ်နိုင်ပါဘူး။ ❍ I could hardly believe my eyes, she looked so different.
၃။ နည်းနည်းမျှ။ အနည်း ငယ်မျှ။ မည်သည့်အရာမျှ။ မည်သည့်အခါမျှ။ There's hardly any milk left. ❍ Hardly anybody (ie Very few people) came to the meeting. ❍ He hardly ever (ie very seldom) goes to bed before midnight. ❍ Hardly a week goes by without someone complaining (ie Nearly every week someone complains) about it. ❍ ALMOST
၄။ (ဖြစ် နိုင်ဖွယ်မရှိသော အခြေအနေကို ဖော်ပြရာတွင် သုံးသောစကား)။ မ…နိုင်…။
Don't telephone yet—they'll hardly (ie are very unlikely to) have finished lunch. ❍ The thieves can hardly have got very far.
၅။ မဖြစ်၊ မဟုတ်၊ မရှိ၊ မပြုနိုင်။ 'Shall I invite the Hills?' 'Hardly, you know they don't get on with Liz and Simon'. ❍ This is hardly the time to back out. ❍ You can hardly expect me to believe that! ❍ It's hardly surprising that she failed her exams when she did so little work.
- He hardly spoke except to say hello.
- Alice was so busy she hardly noticed the days pass by.
- [can hardly do something] : We could hardly afford to pay the rent.
- [hardly...at all] : The countryside around Stowe has hardly changed at all.
- There was hardly any wind, just a slight breeze.
- You’ve hardly eaten anything.
- Hardly anyone believed the fugitives’ story.
- It hardly ever rains here in the summer.
- The region’s wine industry is hardly more than 40 years old.
- London is hardly an hour by train.
- She had hardly arrived when she started talking about leaving again.
- [hardly had...than/when] : Hardly had the men started training than they were sent into battle.
- It’s hardly surprising that people are starting to complain.
- David’s almost twenty-four – hardly a child.
- This is hardly the time to start discussing finances.
- [you can hardly etc] : You can hardly expect Myra to welcome you back after the way you’ve treated her.
- ‘Are you hung over?’ ‘Hardly! I don’t even drink!’
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