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Only A; No more than A
A describes something in terms of an amount, degree, or significance
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I can only read hiragana.
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I only answered one question wrong on the entire test.
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ある           すぎない  
In a sense, life is only a dream.
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      すぎない  
It is just an act.
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        すぎない  
It is merely an imitation pearl.
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         すぎない  
It's nothing but a kind of joke.
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      すぎない  
It is merely an ornament.
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         すぎない  
That is a mere excuse for idleness.
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                  すぎない  
Our world is no more than just one small part of the universe.
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        すぎない  
I am nothing but a poor peasant.
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               すぎない 
What you see above the water is just the tip of the iceberg.
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                すぎない  
Only the tip of an iceberg shows above the water.
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すぎない
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Grammar usage notes

ただ~にすぎない and ほんの~にすぎない are commonly used phrases.
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fareastfurfaro
Level: 1
Chẳng qua chỉ là/Chỉ là
『にぎない』diễn tả đánh giá của người nói về một sự vật, sự việc, tình trạng, là "chỉ ở mức độ đó chứ không hơn".
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zenios
Level: 86

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fareastfurfaro
Level: 1
Verbs in dictionary form, na-adjectives in である form and nouns in である form also should be added as possible constructions.
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16 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 331
I adjusted the meaning a bit to accomodate the newer usages. My dictionary lists nouns without the である. With the adjectives, it doesn't use である.

There does appear to be one or two other definitions for にすぎない which aren't listed here, so those formations might be coming from those?
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16 years ago
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fareastfurfaro
Level: 1
Hm, both of my grammar books list na-adjectives with である.

I only see one definition for this term in both my books. One has 1kyuu level stuff too so I'm not sure which ones you are referring too.
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16 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 331
I'm using the 'A Dictionary of Intermediate Grammar' and the advanced ones - these are pretty much (from everything I've seen) the standards for grammar reference - they have more data can you can possible absorb, so I'm inclined to trust them when confirming data. It's probably that you can put whatever you want after a な adjective - whether is's な, だった, or である.
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16 years ago
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fareastfurfaro
Level: 1
Ah, I have those books but they are still packed away in boxes. Well, my sources are the ALC "どんな..." and 3A マスター 2 grammar book if you were interested.
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16 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 331
I use the second one (although I left it in my boxes in Japan, sniff - could only take home so much), it's a good book. It's not my intention to say one is right or isn't right, but I've ultimately got to pick one. I've seen lots of books approach the way of marking usage patterns very differently. I like the aforementioned dictionaries because they tend to give the most basic way of describing a usage, and often (but not always) leave it up to the reader to realize that the forms can often be mutated to handle tense and/or politeness.
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16 years ago
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Shakey_Jake33
Level: 1
Just to note (and I'm aware that the above conversation is over 4 years old!), the まとめN2 book does list na-adjectives as using である. It does not provide any example sentences for this usage, however.
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13 years ago


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