There’s a bunch of degree qualifiers and I don’t have a good sense of how ‘strongly’ each feels.
My (probably incorrect) guess of strength, with very strong (100% or 0%, depending on if positive or negative) at the top
- ぜんぜん (usually negative)
- すこしも (negative)
- まったく
- とても
- もっとも
- けっこう
- なかなか
- だいたい
- かなり
- あまり (usually negative)
Am I missing any? Thoughts on the ordering?
Should the scale actually be from 100% (always) to 0% (never), instead of grouping high intensity (always/never) together? It felt like, for example, なかなか and なかなか〜ない were similar degrees of strength in opposite directions, but maybe that’s not true.
We have a helpful ranking of politeness levels for requests and a potential ranking of “must do” formality and I’d love to have that for the always/very/sometimes/quite/not much qualifiers - and if it’s good maybe linked from the grammar pages.