► 副詞
突然 [とつぜん] meaning: sudden rank: 1
☆ 突然爆発音がした ⇨ Suddenly I heard an explosion
☆ 突然雨が降り出した ⇨ Suddenly it started raining
突然 [とつぜん] meaning: unexpected rank: 1
☆ それは全く突然の出来事だった ⇨ That was a completely unexpected, out-of-the blue, incident (☛ Sudden and unexpected)
More examples:
- 人間が突然変異して火を吹くことは有り得ない ⇨ Humans will never mutate and breathe fire
- 突然大きな物音がしてどきりとした ⇨ A sudden large noise made me jump
- 突然凄い音がした ⇨ Suddenly there was a huge noise
- 彼はそう言うなり突然立ち上がった ⇨ As soon as he said that he suddenly stood up
- エンジンが突然激しく振動し始めた ⇨ The engine suddenly started vibrating hard
- 彼女は突然の大きな物音にぎくりとした ⇨ She jumped because of the sudden big noise
- 突然雨が猛烈に降り始めた ⇨ Suddenly it started to rain extremely hard
- 突然空がピカッと光った ⇨ Suddenly there was a flash in the sky
- 彼女は突然素っ頓狂な声を上げた ⇨ She suddenly made a strange scream
- 突然包丁を持った男が闖入した ⇨ Suddenly a man with a knife barged in
- 電車が突然減速した ⇨ The train suddenly decelerated
- 高速道路を走行中に突然タイヤが破裂した ⇨ The tire suddenly burst while driving on a freeway
- 彼は相手を突然殴りつけた ⇨ He sucker-punched the other guy
- 突然地震が起こって場内は騒然となった ⇨ Suddenly there was an earthquake and the room became noisy (with people panicking)
- 突然激しい雨が降り出し、人々は建物の中に駆け込んだ ⇨ Suddenly a downpour came down and people rushed into buildings