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Meaning of крайні | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
[ˈkrajnʲi]

Definitions

  1. farthest, outermost (located on the edge, outskirts or extremity relative to the rest of the group of similar things or people)
  2. extreme, utmost (far beyond the norm)

Equivalents

English extreme

Examples

“Ужо многа гадоў назад большасьць насельнікаў Ірляндыі запазычыла ангельскую мову, так што старая ірляндзкая кельцкая мова захавалася толькі на крайнім захадзе.”

Many years ago, the majority of Ireland's population had already adopted the English language, so that the old Irish Celtic language remained only in the farthest western areas.

““De ole sorrel dere—in dat furrest ’tand from de doos—Massa Cahoon hoss.””

"And here's the sorrel—the outermost one near the door—Mr. Calhoun's horse."

“Few of these were armed otherwise than with such rustic weapons as necessity sometimes converts to military purposes. Boar-spears, scythes, flails, and the like, were their chief arms;”

Few of them were truly armed. Most arrived with gear that could be repurposed as weapons of war only in cases of dire necessity—these were mostly pitchforks, scythes, flails and the like;

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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