大変

Meanings

1. very; greatly; terribly; awfully
2. immense; enormous; great
3. serious; grave; dreadful; terrible
4. difficult; hard; challenging
5. major incident; disaster

Part of speech: adverb, na-adjective, noun

Kanji

• 大

  Meanings

  large, big

  On reading

  ダイ、タイ

  Kun reading

  おお-、おお.きい、-おお.いに

  Strokes

  3

• 変

  Meanings

  unusual, change, strange

  On reading

  ヘン

  Kun reading

  か.わる、か.わり、か.える

  Strokes

  9

Example sentences

• １日中歩き回って大変疲れた。

  I am dead tired from walking around all day.

  Tatoeba #235685 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• あえて言いますが、もし我々がそんなことをすれば大変な誤りを犯すことになると私は思います。

  At the risk of sticking my neck out, I think that if we do that, we're making a big, big mistake.

  Tatoeba #234527 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• もし期限切れになったら、大変なことになるよ。

  There will be hell to pay if I don't make this deadline.

  Tatoeba #193739 · CC BY 2.0 FR