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JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ安あん定てい

fuantei

unstable

Example sentences

  1. 4月がつの天気てんきは不安定ふあんていです。

    The weather in April is unstable.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. その生活せいかつは貧まずしく不安定ふあんていだった。

    Their life was poor and unstable.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. これは天候てんこうが不安定ふあんていで、かなり寒さむい時期じきに行おこなわれることにも関係かんけいする。

    This is partly because kanpukai is held during the period when the weather is unstable and it is rather cold.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 不安定

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 安relax; cheapOnアンKunやすい・やすまる・やす
  • 定determine; fixOnテイ・ジョウKunさだめる・さだまる・さだか

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