LingakuFrequency rank: 1,049.
- itself
- one's own body; oneself
- originally; naturally; by nature; from the start
noun, used as a suffix; noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
adverb (fukushi)
Forms
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
- じぶん自分のからだ体．.
- もともとのせいしつ性質．.
- それじしんそれ自身．.そのもの．.せつびじ接尾辞てき的にたいげん体言につく．.
- だらく堕落じたい自体はつねに常につまらぬものであり、わる悪であるにすぎないけれども、だらく堕落のもつせいかく性格のひとつ一つにはこどく孤独といういだい偉大なるにんげん人間のじっそう実相がげん厳としてそんしている存している．.きごう（さかぐち坂口あんご安吾きごう「ぞく続だらく堕落ろん論きごう」きごう）
- わたくし私はさらにすすんで進んで、きごう「だまされるということじたい自体がすでにひとつ一つのわる悪であるきごう」ことをしゅちょう主張したいのである．.きごう（いたみ伊丹まんさく万作きごう「せんそうせきにん戦争責任しゃ者のもんだい問題きごう」きごう）
- きごう（きごう「ちたい地体きごう」ともかく書くきごう）もともと．.ほんらい本来．.がんらい元来．.
Example sentences
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The bidet-toilet itself has not spread much outside of Japan.
Secondly, some of the Creoles may become independent "national languages" in their own right.
Each stage of life is a preparation for the next as well as a complete life in itself.
A car in itself is neither good nor bad; it depends on the driver.
Science as such is not interested in the value or worth of things.
Although the man's ideas are sound, because he can't express them well, he doesn't have a ghost of a chance of getting them accepted.
13. こう幸ふこう不幸というものは、じんせい人生におけるできごと出来事じたい自体のせいしつ性質によるのではなく、それらにどうたいする対するかにずっとおおく多くかかっていると、わたくし私はますますかくしん確信をつよめている強めている。
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
It is incomprehensible to us that a country with that level of technology would even think of making an automobile.
Effort for effort’s sake is meaningless. That effort must produce results.
Am I the only one who still feels a sense of unfamiliarity with the word "Surprise party"?
The sentence itself isn't wrong, but natives wouldn't express themselves like that. So I suggest you write it like this.