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First opened Friday, June 26, 2015

当たり前

あたりまえ

  • flat (heiban)

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

usual, common, obvious

JLPT N3Commonnouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)noun (common) (futsuumeishi)和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 当前

In a sentence

  • 君(きみ)の年(とし)ならもう自活(じかつ)していてあたりまえだ。

    At your age you ought to support yourself.

    Tatoeba #178083, translation #16936

  • こたつで寝(ね)ちゃったら風邪(かぜ)引(ひ)くのはあたりまえ。自己(じこ)管理(かんり)がなっていない。

    Of course you'll catch a cold if you fall asleep under the kotatsu. You have to learn to take care of yourself.

    Tatoeba #224206, translation #61542

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What Wiktionary says

We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.

What the labels mean

和語 Native Japanese
Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.

Also opened on June 26

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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