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げんだい
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. present age; present day; contemporary; today
Somehow, that sounded like the cry of today's young people.
2. modern era; modern times; contemporary era
Please explain the difference between the modern era and the contemporary era.
Alt. forms
現げん代だい
99%
げんだい
Pitch accent
げ
んだい
Used in: 1
Composed of
present (e.g. government, administration); current; existing
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
Used in vocabulary (40 in total)
contemporary writing; modern text; modern Japanese writing; modern Japanese (as a school subject); literature written since the Meiji period
modern person; people of today
modern society
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Examples (26 in total)
Besides, that's illegal nowadays!
Modern bridges are similar in shape.
This cannot be made with modern science.
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