apenas in Spanish - meaning & frequency

Part of speech: adverb
Frequency rank: #1020 of 5,000

Apenas logré terminar el proyecto a tiempo.

I barely managed to finish the project on time.

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"apenas" in example sentences

"apenas" appears in 211 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Apenas tenía dinero.

I barely had any money.

Tatoeba #7931120

Apenas había niños en la clase.

There were barely any children in the classroom.

Tatoeba #358466

Apenas podía trabajar.

I was barely able to work.

Tatoeba #1702964

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "apenas"

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podía18 respirar5 salido5 habíamos3 empezado4 llegue5

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