Illustration: In a Japanese apartment kitchen, a cat sits firmly beside a completely untouched bowl of breakfast, its head turned away. Its owner crouches nearby after several failed attempts to coax it: an opened food pouch, a tiny serving spoon and a second unused dish sit on a tray.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

依い然ぜん

izen

still, as before

Example sentences

３人にんが依然いぜん行方不明ゆくえふめいです。
Three people are still missing.
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不景気ふけいきなのに依然いぜん物価ぶっかは高たかい。
In spite of the depression, the prices of commodities are still high.
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私わたしの知しる限かぎりでは彼女かのじょは依然いぜん行方不明ゆくえふめいです。
As far as I know, she is still missing.
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Kanji in 依然

依reliant; depend onOnイ・エKunよる
然sort of thing; soOnゼン・ネンKunしか・しかり・しかし

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