Illustration: At a Japanese apartment kitchen counter, a person waits beside a glass teapot while the leaves slowly unfurl in hot water. A mechanical kitchen timer has a clear ring of sixty small tick marks, grouped at five-mark intervals without numerals; its pointer is set only three small marks from the top.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

数すう分ふん

suufun

a few minutes

Example sentences

  1. 数分すうふん前まえにトムに会あった。

    I saw Tom a few minutes ago.

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  2. 数分すうふん遅おくれるかもしれません。

    I might be a few minutes late.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. すぐそこだから、歩あるいて数分すうふんで行いけるよ。

    It’s only a short way, so you can walk there in a few minutes.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 数分

  • 数number; strengthOnスウ・ス・サクKunかず・かぞえる・しばしば
  • 分part; minute of timeOnブン・フン・ブKunわける・わけ・わかれる

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