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Japanese
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軈て
頓て
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Etymology
/jamiɡate/ → */jamɡate/ → */jaŋɡate/ → /jaɡate/
Contraction of 止難 (yamigate), compound of verb 止む (yamu, “to stop”) + suffix 難て (gate, “difficult”).
First attested around the 10th century.
Pronunciation
Adverb
やがて • (yagate)
- eventually, finally, in the end
- Synonym: 結局 (kekkyoku)
- 日々の努力がやがて実を結ぶ。
- Hibi no doryoku ga yagate mi o musubu.
- The effort that was put in every day eventually bear fruit.
- not before long, soon
- 私はやがて30になる。
- Watashi wa yagate sanjū ni naru.
- I will soon be 30.
- almost, nearly (usually with time phrases)
- 最後に会ってからやがて一年になる。
- Saigo ni atte kara yagate ichinen ni naru.
- It has been almost a year since we last met.
- (archaic) as it is, unchanging
- (archaic) immediately
- (archaic) exactly
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