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Meaning of 結構 in Japanese
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結構JLPT 5
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Kana Readingけっこう
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Romajikekkō
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
- Meaning
- sufficient; fine (in the sense of "I'm fine"); (by implication) no thank you
- Example sentence
- 「まだ浅いね。足とどく」「結構遠浅だな。よつばもまだ足つくだろ」 It's still shallow, eh. My feet still touch the bottom. "It's quite a shallow beach. Yotsuba, you can still touch the bottom can't you?"
Examples of 結構, けっこう in a sentence
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A healthy curiosity is truly a fine thing.
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「まだ浅いね。足とどく」「結構遠浅だな。よつばもまだ足つくだろ」
It's still shallow, eh. My feet still touch the bottom. "It's quite a shallow beach. Yotsuba, you can still touch the bottom can't you?"
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ら抜き言葉って知っている？けっこう間違った言葉を使う生徒が多いみたい。
You know about 'ra-skipped words'? It looks like quite a lot of students are using mistaken words.
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松葉杖ってけっこうムズいな・・・。「すみません、ストレッチャー通ります！」
Crutches are pretty tricky ... "Excuse me, stretcher coming through!"
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Another event that has the same behaviour would also be fine.
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The pasta here's pretty good. And the pizza too.
Kanji in this word
12 strokes
tie, bind, contract, join, organize, do up hair, fasten
On'Yomi: ケツ, ケチ
Kun'Yomi: むす.ぶ, ゆ.う, ゆ.わえる