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JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

にわかに

niwakani

suddenly, unexpectedly

Example sentences

  1. にわかに雨あめが降ふってきた。

    Suddenly, the rain fell.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 政友会せいゆうかいを通つうじて内閣総辞職ないかくそうじしょくの内幕うちまくが知しれ渡わたると国民こくみんの間まににわかに「閥族打破ばつぞくだは、憲政擁護けんせいようご」の気運きうんが高たかまり護憲運動ごけんうんどうとなった。

    Once the story from inside the cabinet of the resignation of all the cabinet members was leaked out and spread through Seiyu-kai Party, the sentiment to 'destroy the clique families, protect politics by the constitution' suddenly gained momentum among the citizenry, and the constitution protection movement started.

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

  3. このため永ながい間あいだ、幕府ばくふの方針ほうしんもあり、政治的せいじてきには静しずかな都みやことして過すごしてきた京都きょうとがにわかに騒然そうぜんとなっていき、有名ゆうめいな「幕末ばくまつの騒乱そうらん」が巻まき起おこる。

    For this reason, Kyoto, which had long been a politically quiet capital partly because of shogunate policy, suddenly descended into turmoil, and the well-known unrest of the late Edo period broke out.

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

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