Illustration: At a neighborhood playground, children come down a short slide in quick succession. One has landed and is already stepping clear, the next is arriving at the bottom, and another has just pushed off from the top after the chute cleared. More children advance up the steps behind them.

JLPT N3adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

次つぎ々つぎ

tsugitsugi

one after another

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれらは次々つぎつぎと出発しゅっぱつした。

    They started one after another.

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  2. 次々つぎつぎに動物どうぶつが死しんだ。

    One after another, the animals died.

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  3. 次々つぎつぎに事件じけんが起おきた。

    One event followed another.

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Kanji in 次々

  • 次next; orderOnジ・シKunつぐ・つぎ

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