Illustration: In a Japanese community art room, an amateur painter is still working intently on a seated friend’s portrait. The friend maintains the same pose but has knitted a scarf so long that it spills from their lap and coils around the stool.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

長ちょう時じ間かん

choujikan

a long time

Example sentences

  1. トムは僕ぼくらを長時間ちょうじかん待またせた。

    Tom made us wait a long time.

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  2. 彼かれは長時間ちょうじかん働はたらき続つづけていたようだった。

    He seemed to have been working for a long time.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしたちは長時間ちょうじかん待まったが、彼女かのじょは現あらわれなかった。

    We waited a long time, but she didn’t show up.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 長時間

  • 長long; leaderOnチョウKunながい・おさ
  • 時time; hourOnジKunとき
  • 間space; intervalOnカン・ケンKunあいだ・ま・あい

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