だい
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. charge; cost; price
2. generation; age; (school) year; cohort; reign
3. era
4. a representative of; on behalf of; for (someone)
after someone's name or title
5. switchboard number
used after a phone number
Counter
6. counter for decades of ages, eras, etc.
7. counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.)
8. proxy application company
Noun
Abbreviation
9. pronoun
used in dictionaries, etc.
Kanji used
substitute
Pitch accent
Top 1300
Used in vocabulary (195 in total)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
representative; representation; delegation; switchboard number; main number
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
Examples (26 in total)
The bus fare was raised.
How much did the flight cost?
The price does not include the box.
Let me pay for the dinner.
Tom looked like he was somewhere in his late thirties.
Let me pay for your coffee.
The repair bill includes parts and labor.
Our transactions with that firm have continued unbroken since my father's generation.
My father is in his fifties.
She entered her twenties.
My grandfather is in his nineties.
He is in his early twenties.
Trump is in his seventies now.
Mary is in her late twenties.
My father got married in his twenties.
She must still be in her twenties.
She remarried when she was in her mid-forties.
Mr George Bush is the forty-first president of the United States.
He looks old, but he is still in his twenties.
She is in her thirties, but looks old for her age.
My mom married my dad in the 80s.
This system worked well until the 1840s.
He cannot be over fifty; he must still be in his forties.
I turn 30 next month. My 20's have been really fulfilling.
She says she has no intention of having a baby until she's in her thirties.
Many young women in their 20s plan to go abroad during their summer holidays.