| 余り |
| 1. adj. excessive, extreme | |
| 2. adj. terrible, awful | |
| 3. adj. Usage: This is used both as a -na adjective with the | |
| 4. adv. (negative polarity) often, much, excessively | |
| (antonyms, ja, 時々, tr1=tokidoki, t1=sometimes, at times, occasionally) | |
| 西村さんは朝ご飯をあまり食べません。 - Nishimura does not eat breakfast very often. | |
| 見た目はあんまりですが、... - The appearance is not very impressive, but ..., みため は あんまり です が、..., The appearance is not very impressive, but ... | |
| 5. adv. Usage: (ja-uk) | |
| 6. n. remainder | |
| (synonyms, ja, 余分, tr1=yobun) | |
| 7. n. (somewhat literary) an abundance of something, an excess of something | |
| 嬉しさの余りに泣いてしまう - to cry from an excess of happiness | |
| 好きすぎるあまり - liking something so, so much | |
| 8. suffix. (used after a numeral to express “a little more than”) | |
| 二十余りの建物 - twenty-odd buildings, twenty-some buildings | |
| はづき とおか あまり いつか - a native reading of 八月十五日, which is today read as はちがつじゅうごにち for “August 15th” | |
| 9. suffix. Usage: * The word is used to connect native Japanese numerals (ひとつ, ふたつ etc.) into numbers, e.g. 'ten' and 'five' into 'fifteen' rather than 'ten, five'. It is not used when counting in Chinese | |
