Illustration: In a busy Japanese home kitchen, a practiced cook rapidly folds gyoza while an assistant transfers the finished dumplings onto trays. Long, tightly spaced rows already cover two trays, a third is filling, and the cook's hands are closing another dumpling without pausing.

JLPT N4adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

どんどん

dondon

rapidly, steadily

Example sentences

  1. 風かぜがどんどん強つよくなった。

    The wind grew stronger and stronger.

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  2. ある種しゅの動物どうぶつはどんどん数かずが減へってきている。

    Certain animals are fast disappearing.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 時間じかんがどんどん経たった。

    Time went quickly.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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