Illustration: Inside a neighborhood appliance workshop, two tabletop fans sit side by side at the same distance from matching rows of hanging cloth strips. The old fan produces only a slight flutter, while the repaired fan drives every strip straight backward.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

格かく段だん

kakudan

marked, striking

Example sentences

  1. 両者りょうしゃの間あいだには格段かくだんの違ちがいがある。

    There is a marked difference between them.

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  2. それは以前いぜんに比くらべて格段かくだんに進歩しんぽした。

    It has greatly improved compared with what it was.

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  3. キーボードのショートカットを覚おぼえると、作業さぎょうが格段かくだんに早はやくなる。

    Work becomes dramatically faster if you memorize keyboard shortcuts.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 格段

  • 格status; rankOnカク・コウ・キャク
  • 段step; gradeOnダン・タン

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