Word · 単語
自体
Reading じたい
itself
- 1 itself
- 2 one's own body, oneself
- 3 originally, naturally, by nature, from the start
N3
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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
車自体は良くも悪くもない。運転する人次第です。
A car in itself is neither good nor bad; it depends on the driver.
sense 1 · itself
人間の存在自体が奇跡である。
Our existence is a miracle in itself.
怪我自体はなん針か縫う程度だそうです。
Apparently the wound itself only needs a few stitches.
彼女に口答えすること自体そもそも間違いだろ。
You're out of order in talking back to her in the first place.
ウォシュレット自体が日本以外の国ではほとんど普及していません。
The bidet-toilet itself has not spread much outside of Japan.