badly

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From bad +‎ -ly.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæd.li/

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AdjectiveEdit

badly (comparative more badly, superlative most badly)

1. (Northern England) Ill, unwell.

   He's never badly.

TranslationsEdit

ill, unwell

• Bulgarian: зле (bg) (zle)
• German: schlecht (de)
• Greek: άρρωστος (el) (árrostos)
• Ido: malada (io)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dårlig (no)

• Russian: нехорошо́ (ru) (nexorošó), ду́рно (ru) (dúrno), пло́хо (ru) (plóxo)
• Spanish: mal (es)
• Swedish: dålig (sv)
• Turkish: kötü (tr)

AdverbEdit

badly (comparative worse, superlative worst)

1. In a bad manner.
2. Very much; to a great degree.

   I want it so badly.

Usage notesEdit

• Badly is sometimes used after feel in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, bad. Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used.

TranslationsEdit

in a bad manner

• Bulgarian: зле (bg) (zle)
• Catalan: malament, mal (ca)
• Czech: špatně (cs)
• Danish: dårligt
• Esperanto: malbone
• Finnish: huonosti (fi), pahasti (fi)
• French: mal (fr), mauvaisement (fr) m (old)
• Friulian: mâl
• Galician: mal (gl)
• German: schlecht (de)
• Greek: κακώς (el) (kakós), κακά (el) (kaká), άσχημα (el) (áschima)
• Hungarian: rosszul (hu)
• Ido: male (io)
• Italian: male (it)
• Korean: 나쁘게 (ko) (nappeuge), 서투르게 (ko) (seotureuge)

• Latin: male (la), aliter (la)
• Latvian: slikti
• Ngazidja Comorian: nai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dårlig (no)

• Polish: źle (pl)
• Portuguese: mal (pt)
• Romanian: rău (ro)
• Russian: пло́хо (ru) (plóxo), нехорошо́ (ru) (nexorošó)
• Slovene: slabó
• Spanish: malamente, mal (es)
• Swedish: dåligt (sv)
• Turkish: acil (tr), fena (tr)
• Walloon: må (wa)

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