uneaþe
Old English
Alternative forms
- unēaðe
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /unæːɑ̯θe/, [unæːɑ̯ðe]
Adverb
unēaþe
- barely, hardly
- Hēo wæs swā druncen þæt hēo unēaðe rihte gān meahte.
- She was so drunk, she could barely walk straight.
- Iċ hit mæġ unēaðe ġelīefan!
- I can hardly believe it!
- Unēaðe ǣniġ hlyste þām sprecan.
- Hardly anyone listened to the speaker.
- c. 900, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- Se wer mihte unēaðe þurh hine selfne ārīsan oþþe gān.
- The man could barely get up or walk by himself.
- Se wer mihte unēaðe þurh hine selfne ārīsan oþþe gān.
- c. 900, The Consolation of Philosophy
- Iċ wēne þēah þæt þū ne forstande nū ġīet hwæt iċ þē tō cweðe, for þām hit is wundorlīċ þæt iċ seċġan wille, and iċ hit mæġ unēaðe mid wordum āreċċan swā swā iċ wolde.
- I think though that you don’t yet understand what I’m telling you, because what I want to say is amazing, and I can hardly express it in words the way I would like to.
- Iċ wēne þēah þæt þū ne forstande nū ġīet hwæt iċ þē tō cweðe, for þām hit is wundorlīċ þæt iċ seċġan wille, and iċ hit mæġ unēaðe mid wordum āreċċan swā swā iċ wolde.
- not easily, with difficulty
- reluctantly, unwillingly
Declension
| Weak | Strong | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | singular | plural | case | singular | plural | ||||||||
| m | n | f | m | n | f | m | n | f | |||||
| nominative | unēaþa | unēaþe | unēaþe | unēaþan | nom. | unēaþe | unēaþe | unēaþu | unēaþe | unēaþu, -e | unēaþa, -e | ||
| accusative | unēaþan | unēaþe | unēaþan | acc. | unēaþne | unēaþe | unēaþe | unēaþe | unēaþu, -e | unēaþa, -e | |||
| genitive | unēaþan | unēaþra, unēaþena | gen. | unēaþes | unēaþes | unēaþre | unēaþra | ||||||
| dative | unēaþan | unēaþum | dat. | unēaþum | unēaþum | unēaþre | unēaþum | ||||||
| instrumental | unēaþe | ||||||||||||
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