毎日|まいにちmainichi[1]atamadaka (head-high)

JLPT N5approx.Common
Definitions
  1. noun, adverbevery day; daily
    その犬いぬに毎日まいにち食べ物たべものをやって下ください。↗
    Please feed the dog every day.
Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym日ごとにひごとにNeutralNeutral. Emphasizes change or progress from one day to the next, as in 「日ごとに寒くなる」; 「毎日」 simply states that something happens every day.
  • Related日ごと夜ごとひごとよごとWrittenWritten/formal prose. Describes something continuing day and night without a break, with a literary, exaggerated feel; in everyday speech say 「毎日」.

Use 「毎日」 as the default word for every day. Choose 「日ごとに」 to stress day-by-day change, and 「日ごと夜ごと」 for a literary, exaggerated sense of day and night without pause.

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Japanese definitions
  1. (まいにち)連続れんぞくした各々おのおのの日ひ。
  2. 連続れんぞくした各々おのおのの日ひにわたって行おこなうさま。
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