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大変たいへん

Kana たいへん Romaji taihen

JLPT N5 Common word

Definitions

01adverb

02na-adjective · noun

03na-adjective · noun

04na-adjective · noun

05noun

archaic

major incident; disaster

Examples

1日中歩き回って大変疲れた。

I am dead tired from walking around all day.

Tatoeba #235685

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.

Tatoeba #193739

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.

Tatoeba #234527

Other forms

大へん

Source

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