どんどん
Meanings
Adverb
Onomatopoeic
1. drumming (noise); beating; pounding; banging; booming; stamping
2. rapidly; quickly; steadily
The hand movements are getting faster and faster.
3. continuously; one after the other; in succession
Ideas keep coming one after another.
Pitch accent
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Examples (39 in total)
It will surely grow rapidly from now on.
The situation is growing progressively worse.
He ran on and on.
Rats breed rapidly.
The wind grew stronger and stronger.
The situation gets worse and worse.
He walked on and on.
He is becoming increasingly proactive.
Ideas keep coming one after another.
The sky is getting increasingly cloudy.
Ideas keep coming out one after another!
I am steadily losing my confidence.
Let's press on with our work.
The sound is getting closer and closer.
The hand movements are getting faster and faster.
My field of vision is steadily narrowing.
Actually, the earth is getting warmer.
My heart is pounding harder and harder.
Even without turning around, I could tell that the distance was rapidly closing.
The ship is getting farther and farther away from the shore.
Keep laying the patients down in front of me, one after another.
The oxygen is also getting thinner and thinner.
The two of them are becoming increasingly intimate.
Kyoto dialect starts to mix in more and more.
Urbanization is encroaching on rural life.
Time passed, and summer vacation was steadily approaching its end.
As he talked, he got more and more excited.
My math grades are dropping rapidly, but well, it will probably work out somehow.
Even if things can be managed for a few years, the land is becoming increasingly barren.
My thoughts are falling more and more in a negative direction.
Time passed rapidly and the work didn't advance at all.
My strength is rapidly draining away, and I can barely move my fingers.
It seems they are loading the boxes onto the carriage one after another.
The more you learn, the more new aspects become visible.
As I climb the mountain trail, the temperature drops steadily.
Doubts about the judgment I made keep welling up.
The smoke gradually fades away, and a shadow becomes visible in the center.
Apparently, when you're sick or injured, your spirits sink lower and lower.
The boy grew taller and taller, till at last he exceeded his father in height.