大変

Kana: たいへん

hard; tough

Example sentence

毎日の仕事は大変です。

まいにちのしごとはたいへんです。

The daily work is tough.

What 大変 means

大変 (たいへん) is a Japanese word meaning “hard; tough”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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