Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
ほとん
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
殆んど
幾ど

Etymology edit

Alteration from older form (hotohoto).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

(ほとん) (hotondo

  1. almost, nearly, mostly (everyone, everywhere, everything, etc.)
    (かれ)ほとんど毎日(まいにち)ここ()
    Kare wa hotondo mainichi koko e kuru.
    He comes here almost every day.
  2. few, hardly (any)
  3. very nearly, close to, all but

Noun edit

(ほとん) (hotondo

  1. the most of something, the majority or greater part of something
    部長(ぶちょう)あのリンゴですその(ほとん)もう(くさ)っていたので()てました
    Buchō, ano ringo desu ga, sono hotondo ga mō kusatte ita no de sutemashita.
    Boss, about those apples, most of them were already rotten, so we threw them out.

References edit

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.