literally

1. In a literal manner; exactly as stated, word for word.

   Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.

   He's prone to exaggeration, so don't take what he says literally.

   There are literally millions of individual pieces of space debris orbiting Earth.

   wörtlich, buchstäblich, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes

   буква́льноbukválʹno, досло́вноdoslóvno

   буква́льноbukválʹno, літера́льноliterálʹno, у прямо́му се́нсіu prjamómu sénsi

2. With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.

   When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan.

   I didn't have time to repair the wall, so I literally just papered over the cracks.

3. Draws attention to a pun or other wordplay involving an idiom.

   My daughter's pet rabbit had babies, and now we've literally got rabbits coming out of our ears.

4. As an intensifier.

   (colloquial)Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.

   I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.

   I was literally having breakfast when she arrived.

5. (proscribed, sometimes)Used as an intensifier with statements or terms that are in fact meant figuratively and not word for word as stated.

   He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.

   On 9/11 people were literally glued to their TV sets.

6. (colloquial)Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.

   It's not even hard⁠ to make—you literally just put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done.

   It won't take me long to get back, 'cause the store's literally two blocks away.

1. I took what she said literally.

   Те, що вона сказала, я сприйняв буквально.

   ruЯ воспринял её слова буквально.

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2. That could literally ruin my life.

   ruЭто могло бы буквально разрушить мою жизнь.

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3. Don't take it quite so literally.

   ruНе воспринимай это так буквально.

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4. I didn't mean that literally.

   ruЯ не в буквальном смысле.

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5. I didn't mean it literally.

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