余り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
余
Grade: 5

Noun

余り (hiragana あまり, rōmaji amari)

  1. remainder

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Adverb

余り (hiragana あまり, rōmaji amari)

(alternative reading hiragana あんまり, romaji anmari)
  1. (with negative verbs) not very often; not much
    西村 (にしむら)さんは朝 (あさ)ご飯 (はん)をあまり食 (た)べません。
    Nishimura-san wa asagohan o amari tabemasen.
    Nishimura does not eat breakfast very often.
    • 2009, けいおん！
      「あんまりうまくないですね！」
      “Anmari umakunai desu ne!”
      "You guys aren't very good, are you?"

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Suffix

余り (hiragana あまり, rōmaji -amari)

  1. Used after a numeral to express “a little more than”.
  2. (archaic) Used to connect numerals: and
    • はづきとおかあまりいつか(a native reading of 八月十五日, which is today read as はちがつじゅうごにち (hachigatsu jūgonichi) for “August 15th”)
      hazuki tōka amari itsuka
      the 15th day of the 8th month [lit. eighth-month ten-days and five-days]
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