guère

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French guere(s), from Old French gaire(s), guaire(s) (“much”), from Frankish *waigaro (“much”), related to *waigr (“resistant”). Compare Middle High German unweiger (“not much”), which corresponds closely to the French construct. Romance cognates are Occitan and Catalan gaire, Italian guari. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡɛʁ/ Homophones: guerre, guerres Hyphenation: guère === Adverb === guère (with ne) hardly, barely ==== See also ==== à peine === Further reading === “guère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Picard == === Alternative forms === dgère (Nord and Pas-de-Calais) djérre (Somme and Oise) === Etymology === From Old French guerre, from Early Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish. Compare French guerre. === Noun === guère f (plural guères) (Nord and Pas-de-Calais) war