Results, quick-thinking
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- 足が早い【あしがはやい】 Inflection
expression / adjective:
- to be fast at walking and running
- to be quick to spoil (of foodstuffs) - idiom
- 反芻【はんすう】反すう Inflection
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud
noun / ~する noun:
- turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering; musing; rumination (about a subject)
改めて反芻してると、何だか恥ずかしいぞ。 Now that I think over it, it's somewhat embarrassing.
- 簡単★【かんたん】簡短old・簡端old Inflection
adjectival noun / noun:
- simple; easy; uncomplicated
- brief; quick; light
- 鋭い★【するどい】 Inflection
adjective:
- sharp (blade); pointed
- sharp (pain); stabbing; cutting (remark); stinging; pointed (question or look); screeching (noise)
- perceptive; keen; quick (mind); astute; shrewd; discerning
- nimble; agile; quick
私のナイフの刃は、とても鋭い。 My knife has such a fine edge.
少女の鋭い感性に触れている。 I am touched by the girl's acute sensitivity.
- 短絡☆【たんらく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- electric short-circuit
- drawing a hasty inference between two events; jumping to a quick conclusion; dealing with matters quickly and carelessly
- 乗り換える☆【のりかえる】乗り替える・乗りかえる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train)
- to change one's mind; to move on to (e.g. a new love interest); to change methods; to change one's way of thinking
- 機動★【きどう】
noun:
- maneuver (usu. of military force); manoeuvre
noun or verb acting prenominally:
- mobile; nimble; agile; quick to respond ➜ 機動隊
- 矮小☆【わいしょう】わい小 Inflection
adjectival noun / noun:
- diminutive; dwarfish; pygmy; stunted; undersized
- narrow (e.g. thinking); small
- ガチガチ・がちがち Inflection
~と adverb:
- chattering (teeth) - onomatopoeia
adjectival noun:
- (frozen, worried) stiff - onomatopoeia
adjectival noun / ~の noun:
- rigid (personality, thinking, etc.); inflexible; overly serious - onomatopoeia
adverb / ~の noun:
- voracious (e.g. work, study); without slack or pause - onomatopoeia
- 切れる☆【きれる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to break; to snap; to be cut; to split; to crack
- to be injured
- to wear out; to be worn out
- to break; to burst; to collapse
- to wear off; to stop working; to go dead
- to expire (time limit, etc.); to run out; to become due
- to run out (of stock, etc.); to be exhausted; to be used up; to be sold out; to be out of
- to be broken off (e.g. of a relationship); to break up; to have severed ties; to be cut off; to be disconnected
- to cut well; to be sharp
- to be sharp-minded; to be keen; to be shrewd; to be quick-witted; to be able
- to be short of; to drop under (a certain figure); to beat (e.g. a record time)
- to dry off
- to curve; to veer
- to shuffle (cards)
- to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip - colloquialism ➜ キレる
auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:
- to be able to do completely - after the -masu stem of a verb - usually written using kana alone
二人の子供は綱が切れるまで引っ張りあった。 The two children pulled at the rope until it broke.
100メートル、10秒切れる? Will they break the ten-second mark in the hundred-metre race?
- として☆
expression:
- as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of)
- apart from... (used to change the topic)
- even (e.g. "not even a single person") - before a negative form
- thinking that...; trying to... - after a volitional form ➜ とする
- 一飲み【ひとのみ】一呑み
noun:
- swallowing in one gulp; downing; mouthful; bite
- sipping; sip
- thinking nothing of one's opponent; making easy prey of someone
- 手の早い【てのはやい】 Inflection
adjective:
- fast working - idiom ➜ 手が早い
- fast in forming relationships with women - idiom
- quick to resort to violence - idiom
- ぱたぱた・パタパタ Inflection
adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:
- flapping (of a flag, fan, etc.); fluttering; whack-whack (e.g. beating dust out of a rug); whap-whap - onomatopoeia
adverb / ~と adverb:
- pitter-patter (of footsteps) - onomatopoeia
- quickly (making progress); in quick succession - onomatopoeia
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