Illustration: On a narrow residential footpath beside a Japanese apartment building, two neighbors pass shoulder to shoulder in opposite directions. One carries groceries toward the entrance; the other heads away with an empty shopping trolley.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

すれ違ちがい

surechigai

passing each other

Example sentences

  1. 国道こくどう429号ごうが通とおっているが、すれ違ちがい不能ふのうの狭路きょうろと見通みとおしの悪わるいつづら折おれのため通行つうこうはきわめて困難こんなんである。

    National Route 429 running through the pass is blind winding road which is so narrow that vehicles hardly go by each other and that makes the traffic extremely difficult to go through.

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

  2. しかし、ほぼ全区間ぜんくかん、自動車同士じどうしゃどうしのすれ違ちがいに苦労くろうするほど道幅みちはばが狭せまかったため、特とくに路線ろせんバスなどが通過つうかする際さいに渋滞じゅうたいが発生はっせいすることも多発たはつ。

    However, the street was extremely narrow in all sections, making it difficult for vehicles to pass each other, and traffic jams occuring when buses passed through.

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

  3. この階段かいだんは狭せまくて、すれ違ちがいが難むずかしい。

    These stairs are narrow, so it’s hard to pass someone coming the other way.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 違

  • 違difference; differOnイKunちがう・ちがい・ちがえる

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