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JLPT N4 · Noun

倍 (bai)

倍 (ばい, bai) is a Japanese noun meaning “double; twice (as much)”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
ばい
Romaji
bai
Word class
Noun
Level
JLPT N4 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. double; twice (as much) · noun, noun taking の
  2. times (as much); -fold · counter
  3. 1-nth; 1 to n; 1 in n · counter · e.g. 40倍 = 1 in 40

Example sentences

彼は私の倍食べた。
He ate twice as much as I did.
Tatoeba #105714
あの山はこの山の５倍の高さである。
That mountain is five times as high as this one.
Tatoeba #230998

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

Kanji in 倍

倍
double, twice, timesバイ · 10 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 倍.

倍率ばいりつmagnification

Source: JMdict entry 1473230 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.