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JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

長ながらく

nagaraku

for a long time

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれからは長ながらく連絡れんらくがない。

    I haven’t heard from him for a long time.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 長ながらくお待またせして申もうし訳わけありません。

    I’m sorry to have kept you waiting so long.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. そのため長ながらく上演じょうえんされなかったのである。

    Therefore, this play had not been performed for many years.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 長

  • 長long; leaderOnチョウKunながい・おさ

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