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転てん倒とう

Meanings

Noun

Verb (する, intransitive)

1. fall; falling down; tumbling; toppling (over)

注ちゅう意いしないとすぐに転てん倒とうしてしまうのだ。If you don't pay attention, you will fall over immediately.

Noun

Verb (する, transitive)

2. inversion; reversal; turning upside-down

典てん型けい的てきな目もく的てきと手しゅ段だんが転てん倒とうするタイプだね。You're the classic type who gets the ends and the means backwards.

Noun

Verb (する, intransitive)

3. getting upset; losing one's presence of mind

Alt. forms

転てん倒とう

顛てん倒とう

Kanji used

roll around

collapse

Pitch accent

て

んとう

Conjugations...Used in: 1301

Used in vocabulary (5 in total)

本ほん末まつ転てん倒とう

putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the means for the end; getting one's priorities backwards

気きが転てん倒とうする

to lose one's presence of mind; to lose one's head; to be thrown off balance; to get upset; to be bewildered; to be flustered

主しゅ客かく転てん倒とう

reversing the order of (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; the tables being turned; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; mistaking the means for the end

Examples (9 in total)

これでは主しゅ客きゃくが転てん倒とうしている。

This gets the priorities backwards.

注ちゅう意いしないとすぐに転てん倒とうしてしまうのだ。

If you don't pay attention, you will fall over immediately.

そのレースでは３さん人にんも転てん倒とうした。

No less than 3 men fell in that race.