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Discover LudwigThe phrase "barely understand" is correct and usable in written English
You can use this phrase when expressing a lack of knowledge or difficulty in understanding something. For example, "I barely understand the complicated concepts she was explaining."
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"You could barely understand him," she remembered.
I barely understand any of the designers they sell.
They loiter, speaking a language I barely understand.
"Could barely understand them but very nice people," he said.
"These are things most economists barely understand," Roubini told me.
University students, they say, are struggling to learn in a language they barely understand.
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Long in exile, he barely understands Congo.
Louise barely understood what was going on.
Yet who makes the decisions in China is barely understood.
Anarchists breaking glass barely understood what the organisation was.
Back in the early 1950s, the metallurgy of metal fatigue and crack propagation was barely understood.
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