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# little

«little» in Mova's school dictionary: **small in size: a little house** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (little, littler, littlest — usually smaller, smallest); determiner, pronoun (little, less, least; a little); adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Little means small in size: a little house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#m1)

2) Little means young: my little brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#m2)

3) «A little» means a small amount, some: a little milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#m3)

4) «Little» without «a» means not much, almost none: little time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#m4)

5) As an adverb, a little means slightly: a little tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

«a little revision» = a short review; «a little box» = a small one; in everyday life «little by little» (slowly), «a little bit», «little finger»; in stories Little Red Riding Hood, the little pig

### examples

- First, a little revision of what we learned before … [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#x1)
- A little box holds 4 crayons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#x2)
- My little sister is three. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#x3)
- Can I have a little more juice? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#x4)
- There is little water left in the bottle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#x5)
- I am a little tired after the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#x6)
- Little by little the snowman melted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#x7)
- The three little pigs built three houses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#x8)
- "I can!" said the little Rabbit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/#x9)

### note

No operation clue. «a little» goes with things you cannot count (a little sugar); «a few» with things you can (a few sweets). Trap: «a little» is an amount you cannot count exactly, not a number.

### In the corpora

- [One worker alone has little power, but many together are much harder to ignore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/11/)
- [It does not mean the family is in danger; it means there is little left after the bills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/1/)
- ["Money's tight" means little is left after the bills for extras; it does not mean the family is in danger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/9/)
- [Families visit graves, send cards, mark the anniversary, hold memorial services and even put up benches with little plaques.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/5/)
- [A keepsake can be very precious even when it is worth little money, so you should ask before touching it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «little» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/little/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.