Translation
very; greatly
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Examples
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I am very glad.
difficile .
It is very difficult.
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I love you very much.
aeger .
He was seriously ill.
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This pleases me a great deal.
is a contraction of valide, the adverb of validus, "strong", so the sense underneath it is "strongly". Use it with an adjective or adverb ( difficile) or with a verb of feeling ( , ).
Register matters here. belongs to spoken and letter-writing Latin: it is all over Cicero's correspondence and Plautus, and comparatively scarce in his set-piece speeches, which prefer magnopere, or simply a superlative. It is also very common in the Vulgate, where renders "very good" in Genesis, and that ecclesiastical use is part of why it sits this high in our list rather than lower.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 11: valde, cur, facile and 7 more words.