The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.
Source: tatoeba (1623)
Rarely
//ˈɹɛəɹli//
Synonyms for "rarely" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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2 entriesSynonyms
7 entriesRelated terms
4 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
65 translations across 40 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σπανίως adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Arabic
4 entries- قليل adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- قَلَّمَا adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- قَلِيلًا adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- قَلِيلًا مَا adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Armenian
1 entries- հազվադեպ adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- gec-gec adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Bulgarian
3 entries- забележително adv (unusually well)
- изключително adv (to a rare degree)
- рядко adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Catalan
1 entries- rarament adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 很少 adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- 罕有地 adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Czech
1 entries- zřídka adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Danish
1 entries- sjældent adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Dutch
1 entries- zelden adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Esperanto
1 entries- malofte adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Faroese
1 entries- sjáldan adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Finnish
1 entries- harvoin adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
French
1 entries- rarement adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
German
1 entries- selten adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Hungarian
1 entries- ritkán adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Icelandic
1 entries- sjaldan adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Ido
1 entries- rare adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Ingrian
2 entries- harvaa adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- harvoin adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Italian
1 entries- raramente adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Japanese
2 entries- 滅多に…ない adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- 稀に adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Latin
1 entries- rārē adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Latvian
1 entries- reti adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Lithuanian
1 entries- retai adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Macedonian
1 entries- ретко adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sjelden adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sjeldan adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Ojibwe
1 entries- wiikaa adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Polish
1 entries- rzadko adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Portuguese
1 entries- raramente adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Romanian
2 entries- rar adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- rareori adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Russian
4 entries- замеча́тельно adv (unusually well)
- изредка adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- исключи́тельно adv (to a rare degree)
- на ре́дкость adv (to a rare degree)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- rijetko adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Slovene
1 entries- rédko adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Spanish
3 entries- poco frecuentemente adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- rara vez adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- raramente adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Swedish
2 entries- ovanligen adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- sällan adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ви́ключно adv (to a rare degree)
- винятко́во adv (to a rare degree)
- зрі́дка adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- напро́чуд adv (to a rare degree)
Uzbek
1 entries- kamdan-kam adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Volapük
2 entries- plödakösömiko adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
- selediko adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Walloon
1 entries- rålmint adv (not occurring at a regular interval)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
I see it rarely.
Source: tatoeba (1760)
Our meeting rarely starts on time.
Source: tatoeba (23452)
English people rarely talk to strangers in the train.
Source: tatoeba (26129)
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