Illustration: On a Japanese living-room floor, a family looks through an open album of repeated visits to the same riverside picnic spot. The photographs show the same bench and bridge in different seasons, with changing clothes and a child gradually growing taller.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

間ま々ま

mama

occasionally, sometimes

Usually appears as 間々ある in formal writing. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 忘わすれること間間ままある。

    Sometimes I forget.

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  2. 仕事しごとで帰かえりが遅おそくなることは間々ままある。

    I do sometimes get home late because of work.

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  3. 旅行中りょこうちゅうに予定よていが変かわることも間々ままあります。

    Plans do occasionally change during a trip.

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Kanji in 間々

  • 間space; intervalOnカン・ケンKunあいだ・ま・あい

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