Illustration: During a quiet birthday gathering in an apartment dining room, a balloon abruptly bursts beside the table. Torn rubber fragments fly outward, and a cat crouched nearby recoils with every paw spread.

JLPT N3adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

突とつ然ぜん

totsuzen

suddenly

Example sentences

突然とつぜん寒さむくなったね！
It has suddenly got cold, hasn’t it?
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突然とつぜん彼かれは死しんだ。
He died suddenly.
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彼かれは突然とつぜん出発しゅっぱつした。
He made an abrupt departure.
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Kanji in 突然

突stab; protrudingOnトツ・カKunつく
然sort of thing; soOnゼン・ネンKunしか・しかり・しかし

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