Illustration: A woman stands in the doorway of her family's former storeroom, astonished to find it transformed into a nursery. She holds an old photograph showing the same distinctive round window and crooked ceiling beam above towers of dusty boxes.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

様さま変がわり

samagawari

to change completely

Example sentences

  1. 指導者しどうしゃは高齢化こうれいかの傾向けいこうにあったが近年きんねん、若手わかての男性書家だんせいしょかがテレビ番組ばんぐみや若者向わかものむき雑誌ざっしに登場とうじょうするなど、やや様変さまがわりしてきた。

    Instructors had tended to be older, but recently the situation has changed somewhat, with younger male calligraphers appearing on television and in magazines aimed at young people.

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

  2. 駅前えきまえは新あたらしい店みせが増ふえて、すっかり様変さまがわりした。

    With more new shops, the area in front of the station has changed completely.

    Written by AI for Bebop

  3. 新あたらしい先生せんせいが来きて、教室きょうしつの雰囲気ふんいきが様変さまがわりした。

    The atmosphere in the classroom changed completely when the new teacher arrived.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 様変

  • 様Esq.; wayOnヨウ・ショウKunさま・さん
  • 変unusual; changeOnヘンKunかわる・かわり・かえる

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