大部分 – vocab dash

大だい部ぶ分ぶん

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Meanings

Noun

1. most part; greater part; majority

Kanji used

Pitch accent

だいぶぶん

Composed of

lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous; most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly; a good deal; much

No-adjective

minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)

Noun

Examples72

石せき炭たんは大だい部ぶ分ぶんが炭たん素そから成なっている。

Coal consists mostly of carbon.

大だい部ぶ分ぶんの客きゃくは外がい国こく人じんだった。

The greater part of the guests were foreigners.

その金かねの大だい部ぶ分ぶんが使つかわれた。

The greater part of the money was spent.

彼かれらの大だい部ぶ分ぶんは女じょ性せいだった。

They were mostly women.

彼かれらは大だい部ぶ分ぶん若わかい娘むすめたちだった。

They were for the most part young girls.

参さん加か者しゃの大だい部ぶ分ぶんは女じょ性せいだった。

The participants were for the most part women.