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断然 (だんぜん): firmly, absolutely, definitely — Japanese vocabulary

断然 is read だんぜん and means "firmly, absolutely, definitely". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

断然

Reading
だんぜん · danzen
Translation
firmly, absolutely, definitely
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
だんぜんが

Example

東京はだんぜん日本で一番大きい都市です。

とうきょうはだんぜんにっぽんでいちばんおおきいとしです。

Tokyo is by far the largest city in Japan.

Kanji in this word

  • 断 — cut off, refuse
  • 然 — natural

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