Illustration: In a home kitchen, a parent is arranging freshly baked biscuits into small gift bags. While concentrating on tying a ribbon, they have absentmindedly taken a bite from the biscuit in their other hand.

つい

tsui

without meaning to

Often appears with 〜てしまう. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

つい夢中むちゅうになっちゃった。
I got caught up (absorbed in doing something).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
つい眠ねむってしまった。
I couldn’t help falling asleep.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
学校がっこうのテスト前まえなのに、ついゲームをしてしまう。
Even though I have a test coming up at school, I end up playing games.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

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