JLPT N4 · Adverb

どんどん (dondon)

どんどん is a Japanese adverb meaning “drumming (noise); beating”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: どんどん
Romaji: dondon
Word class: Adverb
Level: JLPT N4 (unofficial)

Meaning

drumming (noise); beating; pounding; banging; booming · adverb, adverb (taking と) · onomatopoeia / mimetic
rapidly; quickly; steadily · adverb, adverb (taking と) · onomatopoeia / mimetic
continuously; one after the other; in succession · adverb, adverb (taking と) · onomatopoeia / mimetic

Example sentences

だれかがドアをどんどんたたいている。

Someone is battering at the door.

Tatoeba #203241

ある種の動物はどんどん数が減ってきている。

Certain animals are fast disappearing.

Tatoeba #229868

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Source: JMdict entry 1009320 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.