Illustration: At a small Japanese packing workshop, a seated worker places identical plain lids onto identical round containers moving along a slow conveyor. Finished containers continue in a perfectly repetitive row toward the back of the room.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

単たん調ちょう

tanchou

monotonous, dull

Example sentences

  1. この話はなしはちょっと単調たんちょうだ。

    This story is rather monotonous.

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  2. 私わたしは単調たんちょうな生活せいかつに飽あきた。

    I’m tired of the monotonous life.

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  3. 彼女かのじょは生活せいかつが単調たんちょうだという。

    She says her life is monotonous.

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Kanji in 単調

  • 単simple; oneOnタンKunひとえ
  • 調tune; toneOnチョウKunしらべる・しらべ・ととのう

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