► 副詞
余り [あまり] meaning: excessive rank: 1
☆ 余り心配する必要は無いです ⇨ There’s no need to worry too much
☆ 余り無理をしないでね ⇨ Don’t work too hard
余り [あまり] [余りにも] meaning: excessive rank: 1
☆ こんな時にそんな事をするとは、余りにもふざけている ⇨ It is way too out of line to do something like that in a time like this
余り [あまり] [余り～ない] meaning: not much rank: 1
☆ この地域では雪は余り降らない ⇨ It doesn’t snow much in this area
☆ これ以上時間を掛けても結果は余り変わらない ⇨ The result won’t be very different even if we spend more time
☆ 彼は余り酒を飲まない ⇨ He doesn’t drink much
► 名詞
余り [あまり] meaning: excessive rank: 1
☆ 余りの有給休暇 ⇨ Unused paid vacations (☛ More than you could use)
余り [あまり] meaning: remain rank: 1
☆ 10割る3は3と余り1 ⇨ 10 divided 3 is 3 and a remainder 1
余り [(1)あまり] [liter] meaning: excessive rank: 2
☆ 彼女は心配の余り病気になってしまった ⇨ She has become sick because of too much worry
☆ 彼女は恐怖の余り漏らしてしまった ⇨ She wetted her pants because of too much fear
☆ 急ぐ余りに計算間違いをしてしまった ⇨ I was in too much hurry that I made miscalculations
► 形容動詞
余り [あまり] [liter] meaning: excessive rank: 1
☆ 余りに高くて手が出ない ⇨ It is too expensive and I can’t afford it
☆ 余りの凄惨さに正視できなかった ⇨ It was too atrocious that I couldn’t bear to watch
☆ 彼の主張は余りに馬鹿らしくて反論する気にもならなかった ⇨ His claim was so absurd that I didn’t even want to argue
► 接尾辞
余り [(1)あまり] [liter] meaning: approximate rank: 3
☆ その店は百年余りの歴史がある ⇨ The store has a history of about 100 years
☆ 会社は一億円余りの利益を上げた ⇨ The company recorded a profit of about ¥10 million
More examples:
- 彼の助けは本当は余り有り難くない ⇨ His help is actually not very helpful. I actually don’t appreciate his help
- その治療は余り効果的ではなかった ⇨ The treatment was not very effective
- 時間が余り無いので要点だけを話します ⇨ I only talk about important points because we don’t have much time
- 余りに美味しそうなので思わず買ってしまった ⇨ It looked so delicious I couldn’t help buying some
- 日本では髭は余り一般的でない ⇨ Mustache and beard are not very common in Japan
- 彼等は余りの忙しさに目を回している ⇨ They don’t know what to do because they are so busy
- 私が子供の頃は外国のことを見聞きすることは余りなかった ⇨ When I was a child I didn’t see or hear much about foreign countries
- 余りにビビっておしっこちびってしまった ⇨ I was so scared I peed in my pants
- この地方は夏に雨が余り降らないので山火事が起こりやすい ⇨ Wildfires are common in this area because it doesn’t rain much in the summer
- 私が子供の頃は東京でも外国人を見ることは余りなかった ⇨ You didn’t see many foreigners even in Tokyo when I was a child
- この数日市場には余り動きが無い ⇨ There haven’t been many moves in the market the last couple days
- 前評判が高かっただけに余り大したことがなくて余計がっかりした ⇨ It was not that good and I was even more disappointed because there had been so much hype around it
- 余りに美味しかったので全部食べちゃった ⇨ It was so delicious I ended up eating the whole thing
- チームの成績は余りぱっとしない ⇨ The performance of the team has not been very good
- 会社の新しいロゴは余りぱっとしない ⇨ The new logo of the company is not very eye-catching