numai

Etymology
. Compare Latin American 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. .

The imperative-accompanying sense is a.

Adverb

 * 1) only
 * 2) only
 * 3)   all
 * 4)  almost, nearly, just about
 * 5)  suddenly, unexpectedly
 * 6)  only just
 * 7)  just
 * 1)   all
 * 2)  almost, nearly, just about
 * 3)  suddenly, unexpectedly
 * 4)  only just
 * 5)  just
 * 1)  almost, nearly, just about
 * 2)  suddenly, unexpectedly
 * 3)  only just
 * 4)  just
 * 1)  only just
 * 2)  just
 * 1)  just
 * 1)  just
 * 1)  just

Usage notes
In careless speech can trigger the double negative like its synonym. Such usage is obsolete in standard language.

Some of the modifications that the sentence following in the sense of “just about” may suffer are: taking the subjunctive mood when preceded by the verb  (—was just about to); being negated without any conjunction; or (most unambiguously) being introduced with  while also being negated. in this sense is sometimes reduplicated for emphasis.

Derived terms

 * de numa’

Conjunction

 * 1) but

Usage notes
It’s more common and standard for to introduce a sentence as an adverb in the conjunctional phrase.