次第|しだいshidai[0]heiban (flat)

JLPT N3approx.Common
Definitions
  1. suffixdepending onafter a noun
    仕事しごとの成功せいこうはあなた方かたの努力どりょく次第しだいです。↗
    Our success in this work depends on your efforts.
  2. suffixas soon as; immediately after; uponafter a noun or the -masu stem of a verb
    空港くうこうに着つき次第しだい、電話でんわします。↗
    I'll phone you as soon as I get to the airport.
  3. suffixas (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"); whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand")after the -masu stem of a verb
  4. nounorder; program; programme; precedence
  5. nouncircumstances; course of events; state of things
    こういう次第しだいだ。↗
    This is how it stands.
  6. nounreason
Japanese definitions
  1. 事ことを行おこなう一定いっていの順序じゅんじょ。
  2. 経過けいか。なりゆき。事情じじょう。理由りゆう。
  3. (「次第しだいに」の形かたちで)徐徐じょじょに。
  4. 人ひとの考かんがえや、状況じょうきょうによってきまること。
  5. (動詞どうし連用形れんようけいについて)その動作どうさ、行為こういのすすむまま。
  6. (動詞どうし連用形れんようけいや動作どうさ性せい名詞めいしについて接続せつぞく助詞じょし的てきに)するとすぐ。した時点じてんで。
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