| Part of speech | adverb |
|---|
| Afrikaans | skaars; nouliks |
|---|---|
| Albanian | mezi |
| Catalan | a penes; amb prou feines; gairebé no; no fa gaire; tot just |
| Danish | knæppe |
| Dutch | amper; kwalijk; nauwelijks; ternauwernood |
| English | barely; hardly; scarcely; scarce |
| Esperanto | apenaŭ |
| Faeroese | neyvan; valla |
| Finnish | tuskin |
| French | ne … guère; à peine |
| German | kaum; gerade noch; fast nicht; nicht ganz; knapp |
| Hungarian | alig |
| Italian | appena |
| Papiamento | apenas |
| Polish | zaledwie |
| Portuguese | apenas; logo que; mal; quase não |
| Spanish | apenas |
| Swedish | knappast; knappt; näppeligen |
| Turkish | ancak; sadece; zar zor |
| West Frisian | amper; kwealik; amperoan |