遠大|えんだいendai[0]heiban (flat)
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- na-adjective, noungrand; far-reaching; ambitious
Conjugation
| Plain form | 遠大(えんだい) |
|---|---|
| Polite (desu) | 遠大です(えんだいです) |
| Negative (dewa nai) | 遠大ではない(えんだいではない) |
| polite (dewa arimasen) | 遠大ではありません(えんだいではありません) |
| Past (datta) | 遠大だった(えんだいだった) |
| Past negative (dewa nakatta) | 遠大ではなかった(えんだいではなかった) |
| Te form (de) | 遠大で(えんだいで) |
| Adverbial (ni) | 遠大に(えんだいに) |
| Conditional (nara) | 遠大なら(えんだいなら) |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
- Related大おおWrittenArchaic prefix meaning large or of high rank; in modern use mostly as 「大きな」 for large scale, as in 「大きな計画」, not necessarily with an eye to the future.
- Related大々的だいだいてきFormalFormal; emphasizes large scale and fanfare, as in 「大々的に宣伝する」, without stressing the long term.
- Related大いおおいWrittenWritten/formal prose; usually seen as 「大いに」 or 「大いなる」, as in 「大いなる計画」 for something grand; 「遠大」 adds the sense of looking far ahead.
Pick 「遠大」 for plans that look far into the future and are grand in scale, as in 「遠大な計画」 or 「遠大な志」; use 「大々的」 for large scale and fanfare, and 「大きな」 when you only mean large in scale.
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