alig-alig
Hungarian
Etymology
alig (“barely”) + alig (“barely”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɒliɡɒliɡ]
- Hyphenation: alig-‧alig
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.