Illustration: In a family apartment kitchen, a teenager wearing an apron has prepared three immaculate breakfast trays and is carefully aligning the last pair of chopsticks. Their parents stand frozen in the doorway, one still holding a toothbrush, the other touching the teenager’s forehead in disbelief.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

いつになく

itsuninaku

unusually

Example sentences

  1. 昨夜さくやはいつになく寒さむかった。

    Last night was unusually cold.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ウーッ、今日きょうの練習れんしゅうはいつになくハードで辛つらい。

    Whoo! Today’s practice is tough - much harder than usual.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. この開戦かいせんが決きまると、家康いえやすはいつになく若わかやいだと本多正純ほんだまさずみは記しるしている。

    Honda Masazumi wrote that Ieyasu looked unusually youthful once the decision to go to war had been made.

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

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