几 → ☊ 
almost 
almost 
ใกล้จะหมดอายุ ☊ glaiF jaL mohtL aaM yooH 
presque ☊ 
gần 
几乎 
beinahe 
I almost believe him. ☊ 
Tôi gần như tin anh ấy. ☊ Adverbs almost ☊ gần như ☊ Adverbs I almost fail. ☊ Tôi suýt thất bại. ☊ Adverbs My mother almost cries. ☊ Mẹ của tôi suýt khóc. ☊ Adverbs almost ☊ suýt ☊ Adverbs It was done almost immediately. ☊ Nó đã được làm gần như ngay lập tức. ☊ Passive The man almost breaks the table. ☊ Người đàn ông suýt làm gãy cái bàn. ☊ Medical like: almost → →
until almost morning ☊ cho tới gần sáng ☊ laugh almost hysterically ☊ cười sằng sặc ☊ almost all, almost completely ☊ gần hết ☊ for almost 20 years ☊ gần ngót 20 năm ☊ to have almost no (something) ☊ gần như không có ☊ nearly (all), almost (all) ☊ hầu hết ☊ nearly all, almost all ☊ hầu hết đều ☊ almost, almost as if, almost to the extent that ☊ hầu như ☊ there is almost no office, almost every office ☊ hầu như không văn phòng nào ☊ be almost blinded by mucus ☊ kèm nhèm ☊ very rarely, almost never ☊ rất ít khi ☊ (1) card (2) concubine
(3) almost unconscious, semi-conscious ☊
thiếp ☊ for almost half a century ☊ trong ngót nửa thế kỷ ☊ oh, I almost forgot ☊ à quên ☊ has been used for almost 78 years ☊ đã được sử dụng gần 78 năm ☊ until almost dawn ☊ đến gần sáng ☊ almost as if, almost to the extent that ☊ đến độ hầu như ☊ I like almost all of them. ☊ almost ☊
It's a mistake they almost always make. ☊ almost ☊
The story is almost certainly false. ☊ almost ☊
It's almost time to go. ☊ almost ☊
Dinner's almost ready. ☊ almost ☊
He slipped and almost fell. ☊ almost ☊
Their house is almost opposite ours. ☊ almost ☊
They'll eat almost anything. ☊ almost ☊
Almost no one (= hardly anyone) believed him. ☊ almost ☊
The exercises are so simple that almost anyone can do them. ☊ anyone ☊
ashamed that...: I feel almost ashamed that I've been so lucky. ☊ ashamed ☊
bear sth: The pain was almost more than he could bear. ☊ bear ☊
blow sth + adv./prep.: I was almost blown over by the wind. ☊ blow ☊
Robins build nests almost anywhere. ☊ build ☊
Without treatment, she will almost certainly die. ☊ certainly ☊
He has lived and worked in France almost continuously since 1990. ☊ continuously ☊
cost sb sth: That one mistake almost cost him his life. ☊ cost ☊
Membership almost doubled in two years. ☊ double ☊
The audience was almost entirely female. ☊ entirely ☊
She hardly ever (= almost never) goes out. ☊ ever ☊
It happened almost exactly a year ago. ☊ exactly ☊
Almost every family in the country owns a television. ☊ family ☊
follow sth: The plot is almost impossible to follow. ☊ follow ☊
By a stroke of fortune he found work almost immediately. ☊ fortune ☊
Nick's grown almost an inch in the last month. ☊ grow ☊
She hardly ever calls me (= almost never). ☊ hardly ☊
Hardly a day goes by without my thinking of her (= I think of her almost every day). ☊ hardly ☊
I can hardly keep my eyes open (= I'm almost falling asleep). ☊ hardly ☊
It is almost 2 metres in height. ☊ height ☊
She answered almost immediately. ☊ immediately ☊
almost/virtually impossible ☊ impossible ☊
The population almost doubles in summer, mainly because of the jazz festival. ☊ mainly ☊
We arrived not a moment too soon (= almost too late). ☊ moment ☊
She was near to tears (= almost crying). ☊ near ☊
The woman spoke almost without pausing for breath (= very quickly). ☊ pause ☊
The theatre was not quite (= was almost) full. ☊ quite ☊
'I almost think she prefers animals to people.' 'Quite right too,' said Bill. ☊ quite ☊
It's almost 15 years old. It isn't worth having it repaired. ☊ repair ☊
I've saved almost £100 so far. ☊ save ☊
Such advice as he was given (= it was not very much) has proved almost worthless. ☊ such ☊
Supplies of food are almost exhausted. ☊ supply ☊
We're almost there (= we have almost arrived). ☊ there ☊
Almost all homes have at least one TV set. ☊ TV ☊
The cliff was almost vertical. ☊ vertical ☊
The horse was almost pure white in colour. ☊ white ☊
presque ☊ il y a presque 10 millions de lignes téléphoniques ☊
quasi ☊ on entretient un lien quasi mystique avec son pays natal ☊
faillir ☊ j’ai failli tout perdre ☊
quasiment ☊ il a quasiment tout gagné ☊