得意

Kana: とくい

proud; pleased with oneself

Example sentence

彼は得意そうに笑いました。

かれはとくいそうにわらいました。

He smiled proudly.

What 得意 means

得意 (とくい) is a Japanese word meaning “proud; pleased with oneself”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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