Illustration: At a family gathering in a Japanese home, cousins ranging from a ten-year-old child to an older teenager crowd together for a photograph.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

十じゅう代だい

juudai

one’s teens, teenage years

Example sentences

  1. 彼女かのじょは十代じゅうだいで結婚けっこんした。

    She got married in her teens.

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  2. 十代じゅうだいの子供こどもたちは親おやから独立どくりつしたいと思おもっている。

    Teenagers want to be independent of their parents.

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  3. 彼かれは、十代じゅうだいの頃ころはその川かわを泳およいで渡わたることができた。

    He could swim across the river when he was in his teens.

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Kanji in 十代

  • 十tenOnジュウ・ジッ・ジュッKunとお・と・そ
  • 代substitute; changeOnダイ・タイKunかわる・かわる・かわり

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