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I try to find a word in Latin which couriers this specific sense: right, just, the very; and still found nothing.

I mean that I can find it in many another languages: right here, just behind, in this very place; tam artında; pryamo za, srazu za; they are very equal.

If I try to translate thus adverbs directly, they lose this tinge of the intensiveness.

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You'll have to choose different words for precise meanings. One option is to use the intensifier ipse (which is functionally what "very" is doing in your third example). The dictionary gives a good analogue to your examples:

ea enim ipsa hora acceperam tuas litteras, "For it was at this very hour that I received your letter." (Cic. Fam. 7.23.4)

Another option is modo, which is used adverbially. You get phrases like semel modo ("only once"), non/si modo ("not only"/"not just", "if only"), and nunc modo ("just now"), though you don't even need the nunc to express that: it can mean "just now" by itself. Plautus Rudens 3.3.29 has "sedete hic modo* ("sit right here"), which matches your first example exactly.

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  • Tnx! It seems that ipse may be such intensifier. Waiting more answers.
    – T1nts
    May 9, 2021 at 16:29

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