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大変

たいへん

Readings

たいへん

Meanings

  1. 1.
    advvery; greatly; terribly; awfully
  2. 2.
    adj-na, nimmense; enormous; great
  3. 3.
    adj-na, nserious; grave; dreadful; terrible
  4. 4.
    adj-na, ndifficult; hard; challenging
  5. 5.
    nmajor incident; disaster

Kanji breakdown

N23 strokesGrade 1
N49 strokesGrade 4

Example sentences

1日中歩き回って大変疲れた。

I am dead tired from walking around all day.

あえて言いますが、もし我々がそんなことをすれば大変な誤りを犯すことになると私は思います。

At the risk of sticking my neck out, I think that if we do that, we're making a big, big mistake.

もし期限切れになったら、大変なことになるよ。

There will be hell to pay if I don't make this deadline.

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大変たいへん

very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave

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