guère

Signification (Anglais)

hardly, barely

Concepts

guère

à peine

difficilement

pratiquement

petit

certainement

presque

sans doute

concise

ne ... guère

tout juste

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡɛʁ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.

Phrases

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.