突然

Kana: とつぜん

suddenly

Example sentence

空が突然暗くなりました。

そらがとつぜんくらくなりました。

The sky suddenly got dark.

What 突然 means

突然 (とつぜん) is a Japanese word meaning “suddenly”. It appears in the Level 3 collection, under Grammar & Phrases (and also in Level 4).

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