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American Sign Language:  "FEW" and "SEVERAL"


FEW:

 

Note: The smaller and tighter the movement, the more scarce the referent.


Animation: FEW / several


SEVERAL:  Note "several" and "few" are the basically the same sign, but you can do the movement a little larger and spread out to indicate that while limited it isn't necessarily scarce.


Note: The meaning I'm expressing above with my facial expression is, "There are more than just a few, but not that many."


SEVERAL (another example)  Here is the sign "SEVERAL" using a more casual facial expression indicating a bit more generous version of "several" as in "more than a couple."


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