Lingaku長い【ながい】
Frequency rank: 355.
- long (distance, length)only applies to 長いantonym: 短い
- long (time); protracted; prolonged
adjective (keiyoushi)
Forms
- 長い【ながい】Frequency rank: 355.
- 永い【ながい】Frequency rank: 20,615. – 20,704.
- ながいFrequency rank: 27,390. – 27,616.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- long (distance, length)
- long (time); protracted; prolonged
This meaning is used to describe the physical length or distance of an object or space, indicating that it extends over a significant measurement.
This usage refers to a long duration in terms of time, suggesting that an event or experience lasts for an extended period.
Generated collocations (experimental)
Example sentences
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The present perfect expresses the long span from past to present.
Oh boy ... when they hang out with you for long everyone ends up picking up your bad habits.
This is an early work, I did it freely without storyboarding so it's unreasonably long.
I'd defeated the four sub-bosses and got through the damn long underground labyrinth.
The company president's welcome was so long that we were squeezed for time in the second half of the ceremony.
New York City has long been unusual because of its sheer size.
Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there.
"Can you cut it like this, please?" "A little shorter in the front and a little longer on the sides, please."
Although the paper was much longer than last year's a few students managed to finish.
Last night I could not do my homework on account of a long blackout.