Illustration: In the small courtyard of a Japanese apartment building, a resident has just clipped a bedsheet onto an outdoor laundry pole when a shower abruptly begins. Large raindrops strike the sheet and make fresh splashes across otherwise dry paving.

JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

にわか

niwaka

sudden, unexpected

Common in にわか雨, meaning a sudden shower. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. にわか雨あめが降ふってきた。

    Down came a shower of rain.

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  2. にわか雨あめで試合しあいは中止ちゅうしになった。

    The game was called off because it suddenly started raining.

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  3. 帰かえり道みちでにわか雨あめに降ふられた。

    I was caught in a shower on my way home.

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