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えらい
Meanings
Adjective (い)
1. great; excellent; admirable; remarkable; distinguished; important; celebrated; famous; eminent
2. very troublesome; awful; terrible
3. tiring; tough
Adverb
Usually written in kana
Kansai-ben
4. very; extremely
Alt. forms
偉えらい
63%
えらい
33%
エライ
2%
豪えらい
Pitch accent
え
ら
い
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Used in: 2832
Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
immense; awesome; enormous; terrific
celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position
what are we going to do?; uh-oh; oh crap; what a mess; oh brother
6 more...
Examples (2 in total)
Once there lived a great king.
He is a great scholar and what is better, a good teacher.