Illustration: Morning sunlight fills a Japanese apartment bedroom where an adult remains deeply asleep under a rumpled duvet. Beside the pillow, an analog alarm clock with no numerals shows its main hands well beyond the separate alarm-setting hand. A hand dangles over the clock's silencing button.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

寝ね過すごす

nesugosu

to oversleep

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは今朝けさ寝過ねすごした。

    He overslept this morning.

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  2. 私わたしは寝過ねすごしてバスに乗のれなかった。

    I overslept and was not able to catch the bus.

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  3. 目覚めざまし時計とけいが鳴ならなかったので寝過ねすごしてしまった。

    I overslept because my alarm didn’t go off.

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Kanji in 寝過

  • 寝lie down; sleepOnシンKunねる・ねかす・いぬ
  • 過overdo; exceedOnカKunすぎる・すごす・あやまち

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