THE WORD · N4
ほとんど
Mainly
Noun · Adverbe
彼はほとんど働かない。
He's barely working.
Example: Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Japanese: bunbuku · French : nimfeo
Parts of speech
Adverbe · Noun · Name that can change a name with の
The dictionary may associate several parts of speech with different meanings of the same word.
Other written forms: 殆ど
English dictionary meanings
- almost
- nearly
- mostly
- practically
- virtually
- basically
- just about
- all but
- hardly
- barely
- scarcely
- little
- large majority
- large proportion
- greater part
- most (of)
- almost all (of)