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JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

時じ代だい

jidai

era, period

Example sentences

  1. 彼女かのじょは高校こうこう時代じだい内気うちきでした。

    She was shy in her high school days.

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  2. 戦争中せんそうちゅうは大変たいへんな時代じだいだった。

    We had terrible times during the war.

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  3. 現代げんだいは原子力げんしりょくの時代じだいだ。

    We live in the atomic age.

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Kanji in 時代

  • 時time; hourOnジKunとき
  • 代substitute; changeOnダイ・タイKunかわる・かわる・かわり

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