たいへん
Meanings
Adverb
1. very; greatly; terribly; awfully
Adjective (な)
Noun
2. immense; enormous; great
3. serious; grave; dreadful; terrible
4. difficult; hard
Archaic
Noun
5. major incident; disaster
Kanji used
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Pitch accent
いへん
Top 400
Composed of
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
quite a chore; not that easy; fairly difficult
quite a chore; not that easy; fairly difficult
deep regret; great disappointment
Examples (200 in total)
Is it difficult work?
It was a hard day.
It tastes really good.
Was that so hard?
Is the school work hard?
It has become very cold.
It's hard to master English.
I had a great night.
I am very angry.
It was hard to answer that question.
He was very puzzled.
Is it hard to learn French?
Is it hard to learn German?
Oh, no! My passport is gone!
She's a very strange person.
She seemed to be very surprised.
That house is very small.
Was it hard for you to find my house?
This flower is very beautiful.
I love my mother very much.
This is a very rare specimen.
She is very fond of dogs.
We had terrible times during the war.
He is most happy about his success.
I'm very busy today.
It's difficult to live in this city.
You run very fast.
I'm tired. It's been a long day.
I'm very glad to hear that.
This is a very old book.
It is of great value.
He is a very nice student.
He is very afraid of dogs.
That bridge is very beautiful.
It was a great shock to me.
It's hard to find work in the US.
These are very old books.
He seems to be very sleepy.
Traveling by boat is a lot of fun.
My mother was usually very busy.
He is very sensitive to cold.
I like English very much.
It will be hard to find a substitute for her.
That street was very noisy during the day.
This road is of great importance.
I caused him a lot of trouble.
It is a great honor to be invited.
Everybody had a hard time.
Long skirts are very much in fashion.
He loves soccer.
I was very tired last night.
Being a police officer is hard work.
I am looking forward very much to the school excursion.
I'm very grateful for your help.
My goodness! I have lost the car keys.
I'm getting along with him quite well.
His car is really cool.
Swimming is a very useful skill.
Artists are highly respected in France.
I've been very busy this week.
The storm brought about a lot of damage.
The corridor was so crowded that we couldn't walk.
Do you love each other very much?
The magazine is enjoying great popularity.
Tom looked quite interested.
George is very honest by nature.
I'm very proud of my father.
It is very dangerous to cross this street.
The computer was very useful.
The royal wedding was a great spectacle.
Tony is a very tall boy.
It's not as hard as you think.
The night was very still.
She is much concerned about the result.
Why must life be so difficult?
She was very strict with her children.
I think his opinion is very important.
He is very accurate in his work.
He came to school very late.
The flowers in the garden are very beautiful.
I take great interest in history.
I'm very sorry, but I can't.
He had a great belief in the doctor.
I was very impressed by his story.
This camera is small, but very good.
I'm too busy. I can't take on any new work.
You can swim very well.
I wore a hat yesterday because it was very cold.
She reminds me very much of her mother.
He led a very peaceful life in the country.
The kitchen of this house is very large.
I was very much surprised at the news.
His advice would be very useful to you.
I am very concerned about his health.
He is very kind, just like you.
Small children are very curious.
It is dreadful that a nuclear crisis has hit Japan.
Traveling abroad is very interesting.
It cost a lot of money to repair the car.
I am very interested in fishing.
I was very disappointed at the news.
Some are expensive, and others are very cheap.
I am very glad to see you.
My father cares much about food.
He married a very pretty girl.
He is a man of considerable influence.
She strongly resembles her grandmother.
The flowers give off a very pleasant scent.
Everybody praised Ken for his great courage.
This job involves lots of hard work.
Once they were very useful.
Tennis is very popular among students.
Paul studies very hard these days.
Jim kicks a ball very well.
Much to his surprise, he found his dog dead.
The gentleman is a very famous pianist.
I had a lot of difficulty getting in touch with her.
I thought him very clever.
It is said that golf is very popular in Japan.
Great effort was one factor in his success.
She became agitated about her son's safety.
After losing his job, he went through a very difficult time.
I found the book very interesting.
He told me that he was very tired then.
This box is very heavy, so I can't carry it.
I made a big mistake in choosing my wife.
Young as he is, he is a very reliable person.
It is said that his mother is gravely ill.
Such was his courage that he feared nothing.
In short, he is a man of great ability.
It is such an old song that everybody knows it.
He is such an honest boy that he never tells a lie.
She takes great pride in her appearance.
Of course I can drive a car very well.
Seen from a plane, that island is very beautiful.
His music has attained great popularity overseas.
He surmounted the obstacles with great effort.
She was very happy with my gift.
It is very expensive to keep up with the latest fashions.
This is just what I have been looking for so long.
My sister can play the guitar very well.
The examination he took last week was very hard.
He has a great talent as a painter.
This dictionary is of great value to us.
The girl, like her parents, was very sympathetic.
I had great difficulty in finding my ticket at the station.
The flood did a lot of damage to the village.
Mr. White is doing very well so far.
That folk singer is very popular with people in general.
The circus entertained us very much.
My boss assigned the hard job to me.
She is rich, and what is better, very beautiful.
He seems rough, but at heart he's very gentle.
He could swim very well when he was young.
It goes without saying that camels are very useful in the Middle East.
To our great surprise, he suddenly resigned.
I'm very sorry about that.
They made a great effort to settle the problem.
It's not something I'm very good at.
I was very surprised at the huge fish.
My father is very particular about food.
This is such an easy problem that any student can solve it.
He made a serious effort to pass the exam.
It was such a lovely day that everybody was feeling happy and cheerful.
I think that Japanese students are very good at gathering knowledge.
The news that she got divorced was a big surprise.
It is such warm weather that the roses will bloom soon.
Professor Brown is very pleased about getting his book published.
It is a great honor for me to have been elected chairman.
The judgement is very fair to both parties.
He is very concerned about his elderly parent's health.
She was very glad to find the purse she had given up for lost.
We paid a heavy price for this victory.
His speech was very impressive. You should have been there.
She takes great pride in her stamp collection.
I really regret what I said to her yesterday.
Great was her joy when her son returned back safely.
It was so cold this morning that I left my coat on.
Bob brought such good news that they jumped up with joy.
I am very pleased to hear the news.
Supporting his family was a great burden for him.
Life being very short, we ought not to waste time.
To master even a single skill requires an extraordinary amount of patience and effort.
He is very proud of his skill as a pilot.
I met so many people that I do not even remember their faces.
Last night, I was so tired that I fell asleep with the TV on.
This book is of great value to students of science.
Ken's careless driving has caused his mother great anxiety.
The extra room proved very useful when we had visitors.
Everyone was very surprised to discover that the slave girl was in reality a princess.
Being popular must be hard.
Mr Hirayama is a very good teacher.
Mr Hirayama teaches very well.
There was a great lack of rice that year.
John is very careless about his clothes.
Japan is now very different from what it was twenty years ago.
The number of fish caught in this river was very small.
She likes the beautiful pearl necklace very much.
It's a very dangerous sport, where a slight mistake can lead to serious injury.
I found the book so interesting that I kept on reading it until daybreak.