タイヘン
Meanings
Adverb
1. very; greatly; terribly; awfully
Adjective (な)
Noun
2. immense; enormous; great
3. serious; grave; dreadful; terrible
4. difficult; hard; challenging
Archaic
Noun
5. major incident; disaster
Pitch accent
タ
イヘン
Composed of
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
quite a chore; not that easy; fairly difficult
deep regret; great disappointment
Examples (200 in total)
Is it difficult work?
It was a hard day.
It tastes really good.
Being popular must be hard.
Mr Hirayama is a very good teacher.
Was that so hard?
Is the school work hard?
He was very excited.
It has become very cold.
It's hard to master English.
It's a great honor to be able to meet you.
I had a great night.
I am very angry.
It was hard to answer that question.
He was very puzzled.
Is it hard to learn French?
Is it hard to learn German?
Oh, no! My passport is gone!
Shoveling snow is hard work.
She's a very strange person.
She seemed to be very surprised.
That house is very small.
Was it hard for you to find my house?
This flower is very beautiful.
I love my mother very much.
This is a very rare specimen.
She is very fond of dogs.
We had terrible times during the war.
He is very busy now.
It's difficult to live in this city.
You run very fast.
I'm tired. It's been a long day.
Mr Hirayama teaches very well.
I'm very glad to hear that.
It is of great value.
This is a very old book.
He is a very nice student.
That bridge is very beautiful.
It was a great shock to me.
It's hard to find work in the US.
These are very old books.
He seems to be very sleepy.
Traveling by boat is a lot of fun.
My mother was usually very busy.
I like English very much.
That street was very noisy during the day.
It will be hard to find a substitute for her.
This road is of great importance.
I caused him a lot of trouble.
It is a great honor to be invited.
Everybody had a hard time.
I was very tired last night.
Long skirts are very much in fashion.
He is very good at the guitar.
Being a police officer is hard work.
I am looking forward very much to the school excursion.
I'm very grateful for your help.
My goodness! I have lost the car keys.
I'm getting along with him quite well.
His car is really cool.
The storm brought about a lot of damage.
Swimming is a very useful skill.
Artists are highly respected in France.
I've been very busy this week.
Do you love each other very much?
The corridor was so crowded that we couldn't walk.
The magazine is enjoying great popularity.
Tom looked quite interested.
George is very honest by nature.
I'm very proud of my father.
It is very dangerous to cross this street.
The royal wedding was a great spectacle.
The computer was very useful.
Tony is a very tall boy.
He is very difficult to get along with.
I feel very sorry for him.
It's not as hard as you think.
The night was very still.
She is much concerned about the result.
Why must life be so difficult?
He is very accurate in his work.
He came to school very late.
The flowers in the garden are very beautiful.
I take great interest in history.
He had a great belief in the doctor.
I was very impressed by his story.
I'm too busy. I can't take on any new work.
I wore a hat yesterday because it was very cold.
You can swim very well.
She reminds me very much of her mother.
He led a very peaceful life in the country.
I was very much surprised at the news.
It is dreadful that a nuclear crisis has hit Japan.
I am very concerned about his health.
Small children are very curious.
He is very kind, just like you.
It cost a lot of money to repair the car.
Traveling abroad is very interesting.
I am very interested in fishing.
Some are expensive, and others are very cheap.
I was very disappointed at the news.
My father cares much about food.
He married a very pretty girl.
She strongly resembles her grandmother.
He is a man of considerable influence.
The flowers give off a very pleasant scent.
Everybody praised Ken for his great courage.
Once they were very useful.
This job involves lots of hard work.
This is a very rare case.
Tennis is very popular among students.
Paul studies very hard these days.
Jim kicks a ball very well.
Much to his surprise, he found his dog dead.
She plays the violin very well.
John is very careless about his clothes.
I had a lot of difficulty getting in touch with her.
The gentleman is a very famous pianist.
I thought him very clever.
It is said that golf is very popular in Japan.
Great effort was one factor in his success.
She became agitated about her son's safety.
After losing his job, he went through a very difficult time.
Terry was very pleased with the news.
I felt very sorry about the sudden death of my friend's father.
The transportation system in that city is quite good.
I found the book very interesting.
He told me that he was very tired then.
This box is very heavy, so I can't carry it.
I made a big mistake in choosing my wife.
Young as he is, he is a very reliable person.
It is said that his mother is gravely ill.
Such was his courage that he feared nothing.
In short, he is a man of great ability.
It is such an old song that everybody knows it.
He is such an honest boy that he never tells a lie.
Of course I can drive a car very well.
Seen from a plane, that island is very beautiful.
His music has attained great popularity overseas.
He surmounted the obstacles with great effort.
She was very happy with my gift.
I am very thankful to you for your advice.
It is very expensive to keep up with the latest fashions.
This is just what I have been looking for so long.
He has a great talent as a painter.
My sister can play the guitar very well.
The girl, like her parents, was very sympathetic.
The flood did a lot of damage to the village.
I had great difficulty in finding my ticket at the station.
Mr. White is doing very well so far.
Japan is now very different from what it was twenty years ago.
That folk singer is very popular with people in general.
My boss assigned the hard job to me.
I was much impressed by his speech.
The circus entertained us very much.
He seems rough, but at heart he's very gentle.
He could swim very well when he was young.
It goes without saying that camels are very useful in the Middle East.
I'm very sorry about that.
To our great surprise, he suddenly resigned.
They made a great effort to settle the problem.
It's not something I'm very good at.
The number of fish caught in this river was very small.
I was very surprised at the huge fish.
My father is very particular about food.
This is such an easy problem that any student can solve it.
He made a serious effort to pass the exam.
It was such a lovely day that everybody was feeling happy and cheerful.
This morning the weather was so bad that I had to take a taxi.
I think that Japanese students are very good at gathering knowledge.
The news that she got divorced was a big surprise.
It's a very dangerous sport, where a slight mistake can lead to serious injury.
Professor Brown is very pleased about getting his book published.
It is a great honor for me to have been elected chairman.
The judgement is very fair to both parties.
He is very concerned about his elderly parent's health.
We paid a heavy price for this victory.
She was very glad to find the purse she had given up for lost.
It is such warm weather that the roses will bloom soon.
His speech was very impressive. You should have been there.
I had difficulty convincing her of the dangers of smoking.
I really regret what I said to her yesterday.
Great was her joy when her son returned back safely.
He ran too fast for me to keep up with him.
It was so cold this morning that I left my coat on.
I am very pleased to hear the news.
Bob brought such good news that they jumped up with joy.
Supporting his family was a great burden for him.
Life being very short, we ought not to waste time.
To master even a single skill requires an extraordinary amount of patience and effort.
She is beautiful, intelligent and, what is best of all, very kind-hearted.
The Johnsons are very sociable people, who enjoy hosting parties often.
I met so many people that I do not even remember their faces.
This book is of great value to students of science.
I found the book so interesting that I kept on reading it until daybreak.
Ken's careless driving has caused his mother great anxiety.
The extra room proved very useful when we had visitors.
Everyone was very surprised to discover that the slave girl was in reality a princess.
She called me up very late last night.
Last night, I was so tired that I fell asleep with the TV on.