fast

An user
He
👨
  was   going   too   fast   by a long shot .

Он шел слишком быстро на долгий выстрел.

An user
Write
✍️
  fast   if   you   want   to   finish   early .

Напишите быстро, если вы хотите закончить рано.

An user
How   fast   is   your   motorbike
🏍️
?

Насколько быстро ваш мотоцикл?

(Английский)

Напротив
loose, penetrable, weak, light, behind, slow, local, slow train, stopper, loosely, lightly, slowly
Частота

A2
Произносится как (IPA)
/fɑːst/
Этимология (Английский)

In summary

From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology. The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).

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