でさえ – Vocabulary details

でさえ

Particle

1. even (e.g. even a child)

子こどもにとっては、一いっ週しゅう間かんでさえ遠とおい未み来らいです。For a child, even a week is a distant future.

2. as long as (it is, you are, etc.); (if) only; just

after a noun or na-adjective; in conditional clauses

相あい手てがあいつでさえなかったら、黙だまってた。If it hadn't been that guy of all people, I would have kept quiet.

私わたしでさえダメだったんだ。

Even I failed.

僕ぼくの母かあさんでさえ、知しってるよ。

Even my mom knows.

当とう事じ者しゃが俺おれでさえなければ。

If only I weren't the one involved.

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