同級生
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Japanese
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 同 | 級 | 生 |
| どう Grade: 2 |
きゅう Grade: 3 |
せい Grade: 1 |
| kan’yōon | kan’on | |
Etymology
Compound of 同級 (dōkyū) + 生 (-sei, “student”).
Pronunciation
Noun
同級生 • (dōkyūsei) ←どうきふせい (doukifusei)?
- a classmate (student of the same class)
- Synonym: クラスメート (kurasumēto)
- いやな同級生に出会った。
- Iya na dōkyūsei ni deatta.
- I encountered a classmate that I did not want to meet.
- 2009 July 23, Mitsuru Adachi, “どこ吹く風 [Wherever the Wind Blows]”, in SHORT PROGRAM (SHORT PROGRAM) [Short Program], volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 40:
- 奴とは高校時代の同級生。
- Yatsu to wa kōkō jidai no dōkyūsei.
- That guy was my classmate in high school.
- 奴とは高校時代の同級生。
- a schoolmate who attends school in the same year
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “同級生”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.