Illustration: On a local train in the afternoon, an older passenger sits upright with eyelids nearly closed and chin dipping toward their chest. Their fingers still loosely hold a folded cloth shopping bag, and their shoulders have only just begun to slump.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

うとうと

utouto

dozing

Example sentences

  1. 授業中じゅぎょうちゅうにウトウトしてしまったんだ。

    I dozed off in class.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ソファでうとうとしているうちに寝ねてしまった。

    I was dozing off on the sofa and fell asleep.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 本当ほんとうに眠ねむってなんかいない、うとうとしているだけだ。

    I’m not really asleep, just dozing.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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