Illustration: Two movers ease a large cabinet through the entrance of a Japanese apartment. Its sides almost touch both doorjambs, and its top passes just beneath the frame, leaving only tiny visible gaps.

JLPT N3adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

ぎりぎり

girigiri

just barely, at the last moment

Example sentences

  1. 朝食用ちょうしょくようのパンはぎりぎり足たりる。

    We have barely enough bread for breakfast.

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  2. 彼かれは終電しゅうでんにぎりぎり間まにあった。

    He was just in time for the last train.

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  3. 授業じゅぎょうにはギリギリ間まに合あったよ。

    I was just in time for class.

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