Illustration: Along a straight riverside path in a Japanese neighborhood, a child walks directly toward a parent waiting farther ahead. A fresh line of damp shoeprints runs from a shallow puddle behind the child along the center of the path, without curving toward either of two branching side paths.

JLPT N5adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

まっすぐ

massugu

straight ahead, directly

Example sentences

  1. 絵えはまっすぐですか。

    Is the picture straight?

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  2. まっすぐ行いけ。

    Go straight on.

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  3. まっすぐ前まえを見みてください。

    Look forward, please.

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