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勝手に JLPT 2
- Kana Reading
- かってに
- Romaji
- katteni
- Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- adverb (fukushi)
- Meaning
- arbitrarily; of its own accord; involuntarily; wilfully; willfully; as one pleases
- Example sentence
- 勝手に水質検査を行ったあげく浄水器を売りつけるなど、悪質な訪問販売が多発しています。 There are frequent instances of malicious door-to-door selling, such as pushing water purifiers on people after carrying out water quality tests without permission.
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Examples of 勝手に, かってに in a sentence
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勝手に水質検査を行ったあげく浄水器を売りつけるなど、悪質な訪問販売が多発しています。
There are frequent instances of malicious door-to-door selling, such as pushing water purifiers on people after carrying out water quality tests without permission.
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大学出たての新人は資料を作ったり、コピーをとったりと裏方仕事に徹するのだろうと、勝手に想像していたのですが見事に裏切られました。
I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.
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I took the liberty of using the dictionary while you were out of the room.
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He wants to have everything his own way.
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Come on in and make yourself at home.
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地域参加を呼びかけてもしょせんは美辞麗句、どのみち市役所はやりたいことを勝手にやるに決まっている。
The claim of community involvement is just window dressing; City Hall will do what it wants to anyhow.
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