自体 – vocab dash

自じ体たい

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Meanings

Suffix

Noun

1. itself

Noun

2. one's own body; oneself

Adverb

3. originally; naturally; by nature; from the start

Kanji used

Pitch accent

じたい

Composed of

self-; from (a time or place)

Prefix

body; physique; posture; shape; form; style; substance; identity; reality; field; …

Noun

Used in vocabulary

(the thing) itself

Expression

the thing itself; thing-in-itself (in Kantianism)

Noun

Examples6

車くるま自じ体たいは良よくも悪わるくもない。運うん転てんする人ひと次し第だいです。

A car in itself is neither good nor bad; it depends on the driver.

人にん間げんの存そん在ざい自じ体たいが奇き跡せきである。

Our existence is a miracle in itself.

怪け我が自じ体たいはなん針はりか縫ぬう程てい度どだそうです。

Apparently the wound itself only needs a few stitches.

彼かの女じょに口くち答ごたえすること自じ体たいそもそも間ま違ちがいだろ。

It's wrong of you to talk back to her.

ウォシュレット自じ体たいが日本にほん以い外がいの国くにではほとんど普ふ及きゅうしていません。

The bidet-toilet itself has not spread much outside of Japan.

あの人ひとの考かんがえ自じ体たいはしっかりしているのだが、なにせ説せつ明めいがうまくできないため皆みなに受うけ入いれてもらうチャンスはまずない。

Although the man's ideas are sound, because he can't express them well, he doesn't have a ghost of a chance of getting them accepted.