English Dictionary

few

IPA（発音記号）

/fjuː/

限定詞

単独用法 前置詞句 場所別降雨量

(preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of. / (used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.

日本語の意味

通常、少数の不特定な数を意味する。 / 単独で使われた場合、多くなく、わずかな数を表す。

A few students stayed after class to ask questions.

数人の生徒が授業後に残って質問しました。

意味（1）

(preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.

No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.

意味（2）

(used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.

There are very few people who understand quantum theory.

意味（3）

(meteorology, of clouds) Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.

Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight.

意味（4）

(meteorology, of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.

fewer （ comparative ）

less （ comparative ）

fewest （ superlative ）

least （ superlative ）