Illustration: Beside a row of neighborhood vegetable plots, irrigation water has backed up behind a dense clog of leaves in a narrow concrete channel. Fresh water trickles in from a small pipe, but the broad pooled section sits still, its surface reflecting the fence.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

停てい滞たい

teitai

to stagnate, to stall

Example sentences

雇用こようが停滞ていたいし続つづけた。
Employment continued to lag.
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アメリカの消費しょうひの停滞ていたいが周囲しゅういを巻まき込こむことになる。
America’s consumer slump will hit those around it as well.
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どんなに頑張がんばっても１キロも減へらない。逆ぎゃくに体重たいじゅうが少すこし増ふえたり。それがダイエットの停滞ていたい期きです。
No matter how much you try, you don’t lose even a kilo. You might even gain a little weight. This is the diet plateau.
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Kanji in 停滞

停halt; stoppingOnテイKunとめる・とまる
滞stagnate; be delayedOnタイ・テイKunとどこおる

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