Word · 単語
一体
Reading いったい
(what) the heck
- 1 (what) the heck, (why) in the world, (who) on earth, (where) the hell, (how) the hell — before an interrogative; forms an emphatic question
- 2 one object, one body, one unit, one group, one mass
- 3 one form, one style, one format, one fashion
- 4 one Buddhist image, one carving, one sculpture
- 5 one corpse, one sample (of bones, remains, etc.)
- 6 generally, in general, on the whole, by and large, for the most part — also as ～に
- 7 strictly speaking, in the first place, originally, to begin with
N3
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frequency
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
一体どうしたんだ。
What on earth is the matter?
sense 1 · (what) the heck
一体、どうしたの。
What on earth is the matter?
sense 1 · (what) the heck
いったい何をしているの？
What in the world are you doing?
sense 1 · (what) the heck
一体何をしているのだ。
What the devil are you doing?
sense 1 · (what) the heck
一体どういう了見だね。
What's the big idea?
sense 1 · (what) the heck