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 belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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