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JLPT N1 Vocabulary

即ち (sunawachi)

that is, namely, i.e.

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Meaning

即ち (すなわち, sunawachi) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “that is, namely, i.e.”.

Kanji in this word

即 instant

Example sentences 7

より自然な状態、即ち拡散場を模擬して試験を行う。

To perform a test simulating a more natural situation, that is, diffusion field.

即すなわち 苦痛くつうから 逃のがれること、 快楽かいらくに 到達とうたつすることである。

Human beings usually have two basic desires: to get away from pain and to arrive at pleasure.

滅多は「多くの物が無くなる」即ち見当が付かない事を指し、鱈（タラ）は鱈腹（たらふく）の鱈で多いと言う意味があり、矢鱈は「たくさんの矢を放つ」という意味にもとれ、語源が弓矢にある事を窺わせる。

The word metta means 'many things disappear,' that is, having no clue, the word tara means plenty as the word tarafuku shows, and the word yatara can be understood as 'shooting many arrows,' which indicates that the origin of the word is in Yumiya.

・・・入学の翌年18年の夏、自ら首謀者になって同盟休学を扇動し、同時に教官を排斥してその命に応ぜず、即ち校則を妄り軍紀を乱す者たるの故を以って、校長小澤武雄中将の怒りに触れ、遂に退校処分に附されることとなった。

…In the summer of 1885, in the following year after entering the academy, the student himself became a ringleader and agitated the leave in alliance, at the same time he drove out the instructors and did not obey orders, he deluded the school rules and disturbed the army principles, which angered Takeo OZAWA, the headmaster and lieutenant general, and finally punishment to expel him from the academy was decided.