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ма́ло

Adverbform of ма́ленькийoften used word (top 400)A2
  • 1.

    little, few, a little bit

  • 2.

    too little, too few

Usage info

The words много, мало, немного, немало, сколько, несколько are used with different grammatical cases depending whether the object is countable or not: With genitive plural with countables and genitive singular with non-countables.

Typical usagePRO

  • Amounts and quantities

    • ма́ло де́нег

      not much money

    • ма́ло вре́мени

      not enough time

    • кому́ ма́ло (чего́)

      X doesn’t have enough of Y; Y is not enough for X

    • сли́шком ма́ло

      too little

  • With verbs: doing too little

    • ма́ло спать

      sleep too little

    • ма́ло есть

      eat little; not eat much

    • ма́ло говори́ть

      not talk much

  • Pronoun-like patterns (мало кто/кому/где)

    • ма́ло кто

      hardly anyone

    • ма́ло кому́

      to hardly anyone

    • ма́ло где

      hardly anywhere

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  • drvuquangson edited translation 3 years ago.
  • Дёвьсынъ edited related words 4 years ago.
  • Дёвьсынъ edited related words 4 years ago.
  • Дёвьсынъ edited translation 4 years ago.

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