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Does the sentence 'It's just nine.' mean 'It's exactly nine o'clock'?
What does 'just' mean in 'It's just nine.'?
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Very probably, but Piscean is right about the context. It could express surprise that it is 9, as the speaker felt it was later.
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I'm sorry. I made this sentence using the pattern of a sentence in Longman Dictionary but I made a mistake forgetting to put 'on' after 'just'.
The sentence in the dictionary is 'It's just on three o'clock. It doesn't have any context.
The sentence in the dictionary is 'It's just on three o'clock. It doesn't have any context.
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