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へとへと

  • hetoheto

Definition

adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi), noun (common) (futsuumeishi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'

  • completely exhausted
  • dead tired
  • knackered

Examples of へとへと in a Sentence

その仕事でへとへとだ。
That job took a lot out of me.
歩いてへとへとになった。
I was played out with walking.
泳者のシンディ・ニコラスは、へとへとになって泳ぎ切った後、ドーバーでかろうじて陸に上がってきたが、海峡水泳教会のスポークスマンは彼女がとても元気であると発表した。
The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.
へとへとに疲れて、昨晩は帰宅した。
I was dog tired when I got home last night.
十二時間の旅行は私をへとへとにした。
The twelve-hour journey had tired me out.
その日の仕事の後、私はへとへとに疲れた。
After the day's work, I was tired to death.
もうヘトヘトです。
I'm all in.
その試合でへとへとだ。
The game exhausted me.
二人の警官もへとへとになった。
The two policemen were exhausted, too.
看護婦たちは毎日へとへとになるまで働かされた。
The nurses were run off their feet every day.

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