Illustration: At a family dining table, a large circular platter holds just one remaining gyoza among scattered crumbs and faint oily outlines where the others sat. Four family members have small plates containing eaten remnants, and their chopsticks are coming to rest.

ほとんど

hotondo

almost, mostly

Example sentences

仕事しごとをほとんど終おえた。
We have almost finished our work.
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夕食ゆうしょくの準備じゅんびはほとんどできています。
The dinner is almost ready.
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彼かれはほとんど天才てんさいです。
He is little short of a genius.
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