Illustration: At a neighbourhood festival rehearsal in a Japanese community hall, an exhausted volunteer sleeps upright on a folding chair immediately beside a vigorously played taiko drum.

JLPT N2adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

よほど

yohodo

very, considerably

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれはその話はなしがよほど面白おもしろかったようだ。

    It seems that he was very much amused by the story.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. よほど重要じゅうような用向ようむきでやってきたことが、彼かれの顔色かおいろで分わかった。

    I could tell by the look on his face that he had come on very important business.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. また、親おやと子この体型たいけいがよほど大おおきく違ちがわないかぎり、娘むすめの結婚式けっこんしきなどで母ははの高価こうかな和服わふくを娘むすめが着きるようなことが可能かのうとなる。

    Also, unless the body shape differs greatly between the parent and the child, it is possible for the daughter to wear her mother’s expensive wafuku, such as at her wedding ceremony.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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