meaning of つい先ほど


先ほど can mean, depending on the context, "just now" or "some time ago"

つい means "just"

but in this case, what brings つい to the sentence, since the "just" is normally
conveyed in the 先ほど ?

Context: the protagonist has just died

> 佐藤和真さん、ようこそ死後の世界へ。あなたは **つい先ほど** 、不幸にも亡くなりました
>
> Kazuma Satou ... Welcome to the Great Beyond. I am sorry to tell you that
> you've passed on.




Depending on the context, 先ほど can refer to something that happened one hour
ago, but つい先ほど refers to something that **just** happened. You may want to
think 先ほど is "a while ago" and つい先ほど is "just a while ago".




Depending on the context, 先ほど can refer to something that happened one hour
ago, but つい先ほど refers to something that **just** happened. You may want to
think 先ほど is "a while ago" and つい先ほど is "just a while ago".

