Illustration: A queue outside a popular neighborhood bakery runs down the pavement, bends around a corner, crosses the visible courtyard, and disappears into another lane. Near the back, a customer cranes her neck but still cannot see the shop entrance.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

延えん々えん

en'en

endlessly, on and on

Example sentences

会議かいぎは延々えんえんと続つづいた。
The meeting went on and on.
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彼かれは同おなじ話はなしを延々えんえんと繰くり返かえした。
He repeated the same story over and over.
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駅えきまで延々えんえんと歩あるいた。
I walked for what felt like ages to the station.
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Kanji in 延々

延prolong; stretchingOnエンKunのびる・のべる・のべ

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