a little

Adverb

 * 1) To a small extent or degree.
 * 2) * 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * Hi, Amelia! Are you busy? &mdash; I’m a little busy.
 * 1) * 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * Hi, Amelia! Are you busy? &mdash; I’m a little busy.
 * 1) * 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * Hi, Amelia! Are you busy? &mdash; I’m a little busy.


 * 1) Slightly.
 * 2)  Very.
 * 3)  A lot.
 * 4)  A lot of.
 * 1)  A lot.
 * 2)  A lot of.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: قَلِيلًا
 * Algerian Arabic: شوية
 * Egyptian Arabic: شوية
 * Tunisian Arabic: دوبلاش
 * Armenian: մի քիչ
 * Azerbaijani:, azca
 * Belarusian: тро́хі, кры́ху́, няшма́т, нямно́га
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: နည်းနည်း,, ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᏍᏗᎩᏓ
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: йидяр
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:,  smule
 * Dutch:, , een tikkeltje
 * Esperanto:, iomete
 * Estonian:, pisut
 * Faroese: sindur
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Galician: un pouco
 * Georgian: ცოტა
 * German: ein bisschen, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὀλίγον, μικρῷ, ἦκα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: diotay, gamay
 * Hindi: थोड़ी-थोड़ी, थोड़ा सा, थोड़ा-थोड़ा, ज़रा, ,
 * Hungarian:, , , egy kissé, ,
 * Icelandic: smá,, örlítill, eilítill
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: rud beag
 * Italian: un po', un poco
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: азғана, азғантай, аздап, біраз
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:, бир аз
 * Lao: ໜ່ອຍນຶ່ງ
 * Latin: paulum, sub-
 * Latvian: nedaudz
 * Lithuanian: truputį
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: een Kitsken, een Tik
 * Luxembourgish: e bëssen
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:, , ഒരല്പം
 * Mongolian: -хан,
 * Nepali:, इत्ति, थोरै
 * Norman: un brîn
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old Turkic: 𐰀𐰕
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, , , , یه کمی
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, un pic
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: caran
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мало
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: trochu, trošku
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: tšochu
 * Southern Altai: азулак
 * Spanish: un poco, un poquito, un pelín
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, /, en smula, ,
 * Tagalog: kaunti, onti, medyo
 * Tajik: ,
 * Talysh:
 * Masali: کمی
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཏོག་ཙམ
 * Turkish:, çok az, ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Udi: пӏатӏар
 * Ukrainian: тро́хи, трі́шки
 * Urdu: ذرا, تھوڑا سا, کم
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: một ít,, ,
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:, tipyn
 * West Frisian: snjitsje
 * White Hmong: mentsis
 * Wolof:
 * Yiddish:
 * Zhuang: loq


 * French:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:,  ,

Determiner

 * 1) A small amount of (an uncountable thing).

Usage notes

 * A little is used only with uncountable nouns. or  are preferred for countable nouns.

Translations

 * Finnish:, , ,
 * German: ein bisschen
 * Hungarian: egy kis, egy kevés, egy kicsi,,   egy keveset,
 * Malayalam:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Bät
 * Romanian:, un pic de
 * Telugu: