guère

Significat (anglès)

hardly, barely

Sinònims

à peine

difficilement

petit

pratiquement

presque

sans doute

tout juste

ne ... guère

concise

certainement

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɡɛʁ/

Etimologia (anglès)

Inherited from Middle French guere(s), from Old French gaire(s), guaire(s) (“much”), from Frankish *waigaro (“much”). Compare Middle High German unweiger (“not much”), which corresponds closely to the French construct. Romance cognates are Occitan and Catalan gaire, Italian guari.

Sents

On raconte qu'à l'époque ces familles ne se parlaient guère .

It is said that at the time these families hardly spoke to each other.