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daitai だいたい for the most part;
generally speaking

ADDITIONAL VOCABULARY

sodatsu 育つ grow up
nyūgaku-suru 入学する enter school

sotsugyō-suru 卒業する graduate
hairu 入る enter

deru 出る leave; emerge
owari 終わり ending

shō-gakkō 小学校 elementary school
kōkō 高校 high school

daigaku-in 大学院 graduate school
kotoshi ことし this year

rainen 来年 next year
ototoshi おととし year before the last

sarainen 再来年 year after the next

GRAMMAR NOTE More on the Te-Form

We have seen how changing the first sentence’s predicate into its te-form can
combine two sentences.
Verb: Okinawa ni itte, I’ll go to Okinawa and
asobimasu. play.

Adjective: Kore, atarashikute, oishi’i This is fresh and
desu. delicious.

Noun: Kyō wa ame de, samui It’s raining and (it’s)
desu. cold today.

Let’s look at what happens if the predicate in the first part of the sentence is in
its negative form. All the negative forms are adjectives regardless of whether
they are originally a verb or a noun predicate. Therefore, the negative forms

follow the adjective pattern, namely changing /-nai/ to /-nakute/.
Wakaranai → Wakaranakute komatta.
I didn’t understand and had a hard time.