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à peine

By Laura K. Lawless, About.com

Definition: (adv) - hardly, barely

Il est à peine midi - It's only noon, It just turned noon.

J'ai à peine faim - I'm barely hungry.

Related: la peine - sorrow, effort, difficulty; peiner - to toil, labor, struggle

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