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前代未聞
- Kana Reading
- ぜんだいみもん
- Romaji
- zendaimimon
- Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'
- Meaning
- unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
- Example sentence
- 犯人を弁護してた弁護士が実は真犯人だったなんて、前代未聞だ。 It's totally without precedent for the suspect's attorney to be the true culprit.
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Examples of 前代未聞, ぜんだいみもん in a sentence
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Kanji in this word
未
JLPT 3
5 strokes
un-, not yet, hitherto, still, even now, sign of the ram, 1-3PM, eighth sign of Chinese zodiac
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代
JLPT 4
5 strokes
substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., generation, charge, rate, fee
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