very

Etymology
From, from , from , from , derived from , from , from.

Distantly cognate with the 🇨🇬. Over time displaced the use of a number of Germanic words or prefixes to convey the sense 'very' such as, , , , , , (partially).

Adjective

 * 1)  True, real, actual.
 * 2) * 1659,, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, 2nd edition, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Chapter 3, verse 19, p. 517,
 * they that think to be wiser then other men, are by so much verier fools then others, and so are discerned to be.
 * 1) The same; identical.
 * 2) With limiting effect: mere.
 * 1) * 1659,, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, 2nd edition, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Chapter 3, verse 19, p. 517,
 * they that think to be wiser then other men, are by so much verier fools then others, and so are discerned to be.
 * 1) The same; identical.
 * 2) With limiting effect: mere.
 * they that think to be wiser then other men, are by so much verier fools then others, and so are discerned to be.
 * 1) The same; identical.
 * 2) With limiting effect: mere.
 * 1) The same; identical.
 * 2) With limiting effect: mere.
 * 1) The same; identical.
 * 2) With limiting effect: mere.
 * 1) With limiting effect: mere.
 * 1) With limiting effect: mere.
 * 1) With limiting effect: mere.
 * 1) With limiting effect: mere.

Usage notes

 * is used exclusively attributively and never predicatively.

Translations

 * Finnish:, ,
 * Georgian: ნამდვილი, რეალური
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:


 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: elə həmin
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: o mesmo
 * Georgian: იგივე
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: сам, самиот
 * Nepali: त्यै
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, o mesmo
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: vera
 * Scottish Gaelic: aon, ceart, ceudna, dearbh
 * Tagalog: talaga, talagang
 * Zazaki:


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:

Adverb

 * 1) To a great extent or degree.
 * 2) Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
 * 1) Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
 * 1) Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
 * 1) Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
 * 1) Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
 * 1) Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
 * 1) Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
 * 1) Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.

Usage notes

 * When used in their senses as degree adverbs, "very" and "too" never modify verbs (except in some dialects influenced by Chinese: see citations).

Translations

 * Abkhaz: даара, даараӡа
 * Adyghe: дэд
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: በጣም
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: قوي, جدا, كتير
 * Gulf Arabic: وايد
 * Hijazi Arabic: مَرَّة
 * Iraqi Arabic: كلش, هواية, هواي, حيل
 * Moroccan Arabic: بالزاف, كتير
 * North Levantine Arabic: كتير
 * South Levantine Arabic: كتير
 * Sudanese Arabic: شَدِيْد
 * Tunisian Arabic: برشا
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: বৰ, খুব, নিচেই
 * Asturian:, ,
 * Azerbaijani:, olduqca,
 * Bashkir: бик, бигерәк, үтә
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:, ду́жа
 * Bengali:
 * Biatah Bidayuh: paŭh
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:, , ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: барз
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chechen: чӀогӀа
 * Cherokee: ᏙᎯᏳ
 * Chickasaw: kani̠hka̠
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 好, 非常
 * Dungan: хын, -дихын, дин, йүә
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Wu: 蠻, 老, 交關
 * Crimean Tatar: çoq
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, særlig,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Elfdalian: stur-
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: sera, ógvuliga, óføra
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ძალიან, ძლიერ, ძალზე
 * German:, ,
 * Alemannic German: schüüli
 * Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌿
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λίαν, πάνυ, μάλα, ἀγα-
 * Greenlandic: assut
 * Guaraní: -ete
 * Haitian Creole: anpil
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hopi: a'ni, hin'ur
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:, ákaflega, afar, ógeðslega,  voða, ýkja,  fjarska, einkar
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua: multo
 * Irish: an-, ana-, iontach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , , 凄く, , , , , , めっちゃ , , ばり ,  ,  , どえらい、でら,
 * Kabyle: aṭas
 * Kannada: ,
 * Karachay-Balkar: бек
 * Karakhanid: اَيِغْ
 * Kashubian: barô
 * Kazakh: аса, өте, ерен
 * Khanty:
 * Northern Khanty: шєӈк
 * Khmer:
 * Komi-Zyrian: зэв, вывті
 * Korean:, , ,
 * Kumyk: кёп, оьтесиз, бек
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Ladin: scialdi, drë, stra
 * Ladino: muy
 * Lao: ຈັດ, ຄະເຍີ,, ຈຸ່ນພູ່ນ, ຈ້າ, ຫຼາຍ
 * Latin: use superlative adjective,, summē, valdē, per-
 * Latvian:, gluži, visai
 * Laz: dido
 * Lezgi: гзаф, лап
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: ganz
 * Macedonian:, мошне
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: ᡠᠮᡝᠰᡳ
 * Maori:
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: пеш, моткоч
 * Western Mari: когон
 * Mbyá Guaraní: vaipa
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, , вѐома
 * Navajo: ayóo, tʼóó báhádzigo
 * Neapolitan: assai, nu sacco
 * Nepali: एकदमै
 * Ngazidja Comorian: halisi, ha kuu, kabisa
 * Northern Mansi:
 * Northern Sami: hui
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: veldig, ovleg
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: ѕѣло, зѣло, вельми, вьсьма, мъного
 * Old East Slavic: вельми, вьсьма
 * Old English: swīþe
 * Old Galician-Portuguese: mui, muito
 * Old Turkic: 𐰪𐰃𐰍
 * Ossetian: тынг, иттӕг
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: sea
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ;
 * Punjabi: ਬਹੁਤ
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: fitg
 * Russian:, , , ,  ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: gey, unco, vera
 * Scottish Gaelic: glè, ro, fìor
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вр̏ло
 * Roman: ,
 * Seri: áa
 * Sinhalese: හරි, හුඟක්
 * Slovak:, mnoho
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wjelgin
 * Upper Sorbian: jara, wulce
 * Spanish:
 * Svan: გუნ
 * Swahili: sana
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Sylheti: ꠛꠃꠔ
 * Tagalog: talaga, talagang, sobra, sobrang
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil:, ,
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཞེ་དྲགས
 * Tocharian B: tsamo, tanki
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: örän
 * Tuvan: аажок, адак, дыка, дэндии, чүдек
 * Udmurt: туж
 * Ukrainian:, ве́льми
 * Urdu: بَہُت
 * Uyghur: بەك, ناھايىتى
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:,  ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: tige, frij
 * White Hmong: heev
 * Wolof:
 * Yakut: олус, наһаа, бэрт
 * Yiddish: זייער
 * Zazaki: zaf,
 * Zhuang:


 * Armenian:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Catalan: veramente
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ნამდვილად
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , , , egy az egyben
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: tenan
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: īsti
 * Laz: mtilana
 * Macedonian: нај-
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scots: gey, unco, vera
 * Scottish Gaelic: fìor
 * Seri: áa
 * Slovak: naozaj
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: (with a superlative),
 * Tagalog: talaga, talagang
 * White Hmong: tseeb


 * Danish: aller-
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Slovak: úplne
 * Swedish:
 * White Hmong: heev


 * Basque:, , , , , , ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Mandarin:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:

Adjective

 * 1) lost
 * 2)  enslaved

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1) true

Adverb

 * 1) very