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脱線 (だっせん): derailment, digression — Japanese vocabulary

脱線 is read だっせん and means "derailment, digression". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

脱線

Reading
だっせん · dassen
Translation
derailment, digression
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
だっせんが

Example

脱線がどんどんエスカレートしていく。

だっせんがどんどんエスカレートしていく。

The digression is escalating more and more.

Kanji in this word

  • 脱 — remove, escape
  • 線 — line

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