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Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • Tuntematon aksentti:
    • IPA: [ˈlɪt͡ʃɹəli]
    • IPA: /ˈlɪt.ɚ.(ɹ)əl.i/, /ˈlɪ.tɹə.li/
  • US:
    • IPA: [ˈlɪɾɚ(ɹ)əli]

Lyhenteet ja supistumat

Määritelmät

Adverbit

  1. (speech act) word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor
  2. (degree, proscribed) used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually (often considered incorrect; see usage notes)
  3. (colloquial) Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.

Esimerkit

  • When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan.
  • Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans. Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.
  • The house was literally electrified; and it was only from witnessing the effects of her genius that he could guess to what a pitch theatrical excellence could be carried.
  • You literally become the ball in a tennis match, you become the report that you are working on [...]
  • - She took a giant shit on my face. Literally.
  • - Literally?
  • - Well, no, not literally. That's disgusting. What's wrong with you?
  • You literally put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done.