English-Estonian translations for literally

• sõna-sõnalt
  kirjalikult. - (FI) Demokraatia tähendab sõna-sõnalt rahva võimu. in writing. - (FI) Democracy literally means the power of the people.
  Tõlgin värsi sõna-sõnalt ja te näete, miks keegi seda nii ei tõlgi. I am going to translate it literally and you will see why no one translates it that way.
  Reformileping kirjutab sõna-sõnalt ümber ELi lepingud ja Euroopa Ühenduse aluslepingud. The Reform Treaty literally re-writes the EU Treaties and the founding Treaties of the European Communities.
• sõnasõnaliselt
• täht-tähelt

Definition of literally

• word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor
• virtually, so to speak (often considered incorrect; see usage notes
• just, merely

Examples

• When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan
• He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air
• My daughters pet rabbit had babies, and now weve literally got rabbits coming out of our ears
• I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.
• I was literally having breakfast when she arrived.
• She was literally like, "What?", and I was literally like, "Yeah".
• You literally put it in the microwave for five minutes and its done

Related words

• literal
• triliteral
• quadriliteral
• literalness
• biliteral
• uniliteral
• monoliteral
• quinquiliteral
• literal translation