hard, hardly and hardily

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi all,

can anybody explain what is the difference between “hard”, “hardly” and “hardily” ?

Thanks,
Kostya

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Hard = difficult; non-malleable
Hardly = almost not
Hardily = in a hardy manner

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Dear Mr. Micawber,

as I understood from your answer ,there are four similar words : hard, hardly, hardy and hardily. I understand the difference now, thank you very much!

Kostya

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Hi M.M,
Is the word " hardily" an adverb as you mentioned ( in a hardy manner), because I learned that the adverb from hard stay as it( adjective and adverb) at the same time.
thank you for your patience.

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Please check you dictionary for the adjectives ‘hard’ and ‘hardy’-- their adverbial forms should be listed there.

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Hi MM,
I’m very sorry to tell you that I didn’t find the word " hardily" in any part of speech in my dictionary, never the less I’m very grateful for your assistant.My dictionary called
“Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English” AS Hornby.

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Not to mention the word hardy, I think you got something wrong, ET. The adverbial form of hard remains unchanged but here, hardily is the adverbial form of hardy not hard. About its existence, I think you should find in more sources or google it.

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Hi V.W,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE, AND REALY WHEN MM SAID ABOUT THIS ISSUE, I FELT OF SOME DOUBT OF MY OLD EDITION DICTINARY.
THANK YOU AGAIN, AND I’M GOING TO TAKE YOUR ADVICE TO LOOK IT UP FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.

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Hello English Teacher, please stop SHOUTING: english-test.net/community/i … uting_mean

Thank you very much. Tosten[YSaerTTEW443543]

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Hi Tor,
It’s very nice to hearing from you, you make me laugh, but realy in my old edition dictionary I looked the word " hardily"
up to the last letter of the enteries of the word “hard” and it’s all derivations, but I didn’t find it.But also I’m going to surf google to seek it.
Thank you for your efforts.

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Hi Tor,
Realy I’m very sorry, and I’m very glad to learn this new word “shouting”, but also if you saw my letter I didn’t mentioned any rude words, on the contrary I always write politely.And if you see any rude in my replies,you may unsubscribe me.
The reason I read in capital letter, that I were speeding up my writing, because of some failure in my personal computer.
Regards