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N5 レッスン 8: 4/13

くらい ①About, Approximately

くらい and ぐらい may be used 100% interchangeably, but ぐらい is far more common in speech

使い方・接続

Number/counter + くらい or ぐらい

詳細

  • 助詞

  • 副助詞

  • 一般

「くらい ①」の情報

くらい or ぐらい (more common in spoken language) has several different uses in Japanese, but is often translated as 'about', or 'approximately'. It comes from the kanji 位(くらい), which literally means a 'rank', or 'grade' of something. This use of くらい comes after numbers, or counter words.

As can be seen in the last example, くらい may also be used after question words such as どの, when asking about the extent (grade) of something.

Due to the original meaning of くらい being 'rank', or 'extent', it may not be used when referring to broad periods of time. ころ will be used in these situations. However, くらい and ころ may be used interchangeably when referring to a specific time (due to a specific time being able to be thought of as an extent).

Caution

Please see the ころ grammar point if you would like to compare these two structures further.

同義語

関連

例文

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  • 何時(なんじ)ぐらいに来(き)ますか。

    Approximately when will you come?

  • あと３０(さんじゅっ)分(ぷん)ぐらいで行(い)きます。

    I will go/leave in approximately 30 minutes.

  • 毎週(まいしゅう)コーヒーはどのくらい飲(の)む？

    Approximately how much coffee do you drink per week?

  • 彼(かれ)は１０(じゅっ)歳(さい)くらいだろう。

    He's about 10 years old.

  • 一週間(いっしゅうかん)に、五(ご)時間(じかん)ぐらいスポーツをする。

    I play sports for about five hours in one week.

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      • Dasutin

        Dasutin

        To follow up on the question asked by alexpwns, why is で used after くらい in these examples?

        後３分くらいで着く。
        どのくらいで着きますか?
        あと３０分ぐらいで行きます。

      • Ashitaka1

        Ashitaka1

        I also would like to know.

      • Pablunpro

        Pablunpro

        Hi!

        If you look at the sentences, they all deal with the amount of time someone needs to perform an action, arriving or going in these cases. Now, if you go to this で grammar point, you can see that ‘at its core, で is always used to highlight something that is ‘required’ to perform some sort of action’.

        In these cases, that something is time. Thus, で is used here to indicate that someone will need about a certain amount of time to either arrive or (before they) go.

        HTH!

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