Meaning of 大学 in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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大学, 大學JLPT 5
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Kana Readingだいがく
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Romajidaigaku
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
- Meaning
- post-secondary education institution, incl. university, college, etc.
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators)
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- the Great Learning - one of the Four Books
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Example Sentences
大学, 大學, だいがく used in context
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Apparently an old friend of mine is going to a university in Osaka in Spring.
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The professor who invented it has the right to reasonable remuneration from the university.
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できちゃった婚のため身内と大学の友人2人しかよばない地味婚にするそうです。
It seems as it was a shot-gun wedding so they're having a quiet wedding with only family and a couple of friends from university invited.
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バイトで学費を稼ぎながら大学に通ってる。まあ苦学生ってとこかな。
I pay my university fees to go to university by part-time work. Well, I'm a 'working student' I suppose.
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大学出たての新人は資料を作ったり、コピーをとったりと裏方仕事に徹するのだろうと、勝手に想像していたのですが見事に裏切られました。
I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.
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I've already had the entrance ceremony. It's a university alongside the same railway line.
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