代だい
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. charge; cost; price
2. generation; age; (school) year; cohort; reign
3. era
4. a representative of; on behalf of; for (someone)
after someone's name or title
5. switchboard number
used after a phone number
Counter
6. counter for decades of ages, eras, etc.
7. counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.)
Noun
Abbreviation
8. proxy application company
9. pronoun
used in dictionaries, etc.
Kanji used
substitute
Pitch accent
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Top 1400
Used in vocabulary (226 in total)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
representation; representative; exemplification; typification; leader; switchboard number
present age; present day; contemporary; modern era; modern times; contemporary era
Examples (26 in total)
My father is in his fifties.
She entered her twenties.
My grandfather is in his nineties.
The bus fare was raised.
How much did the flight cost?
He is in his early twenties.
Trump is in his seventies now.
Mary is in her late twenties.
My father got married in his twenties.
She must still be in her twenties.
The price does not include the box.
She remarried when she was in her mid-forties.
Let me pay for the dinner.
Mr George Bush is the forty-first president of the United States.
Tom looked like he was somewhere in his late thirties.
He looks old, but he is still in his twenties.
She is in her thirties, but looks old for her age.
My mom married my dad in the 80s.
Let me pay for your coffee.
The repair bill includes parts and labor.
This system worked well until the 1840s.
He cannot be over fifty; he must still be in his forties.
I turn 30 next month. My 20's have been really fulfilling.
She says she has no intention of having a baby until she's in her thirties.
Many young women in their 20s plan to go abroad during their summer holidays.
Our transactions with that firm have continued unbroken since my father's generation.