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大人 (おとな): Adult — Japanese vocabulary

大人 is read おとな and means "Adult". JLPT N5 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

大人

Reading
おとな · otona
Translation
Adult
Level
JLPT N5
Pitch accent
おとなが

Example

大人は八百円、子どもは四百円です。

おとなははっぴゃくえん、こどもはよんひゃくえんです。

It's eight hundred yen for adults and four hundred yen for children.

Kanji in this word

  • 大 — large, big
  • 人 — person

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