Istilah at least pasti sudah tidak asing kamu dengar, bukan? Kata yang sering digunakan untuk bercakap-cakap campuran bahasa Indonesia dan Inggris ini kerap dipakai anak muda.
Lalu, apakah arti kata at least sebenarnya dan bagaimana cara penggunaannya?
Pengertian at least
Menurut situs oxford language, at least memiliki pengertian not less than; at the minimum.
Adapun ciri dan fungsinya adalah
- Sebagai pengulangan untuk menegaskan.
- Pernyataan hal positif di dalam situasi yang tampaknya negatif.
- Kata ini juga bisa ditambahkan adverb of degree “very” menjadi at the very least untuk memberi penekanan lebih.
Contoh Penggunaan at least dalam Kalimat
- I think everyone was guilty of staring at her at least once – if for no other reason, wondering if she was going to fall out of her dress.
- Her age must have been mentioned at least a half-dozen times in the last six trips.
- I guess I can’t deny that, but in all these years, why hasn’t Uncle Fabrice’s name come up in a conversation at least once?
- We thought maybe you could convince him to go, or at least look at him.
- I’m tested out, at least for now.
- I’ve pondered the events of those few months so often and so deeply I know if I don’t at least commit the experience to paper I’ll never move forward.
- He was also listed as a person of interest in the deaths of at least six young women in the Missouri-Kentucky area.
- I think the best course of action in this instance is inaction—let this business play itself out, at least for the time being.
- Now he’s at least functional but the sad part is he lost nearly all of his memory.
- I’d love to be just a mom, at least the first few years.
Demikian ulasan tentang materi at least dalam bahasa Inggris. Biar kamu makin mahir, yuk ikut program Lister saja. Kamu bisa belajar bahasa Inggris dari mana saja dan kapan saja. Dengan menggunakan beberapa metode dan materi belajar yang sesuai, kamu akan lebih nyaman dalam belajar, betul? Yuk daftar sekarang!
