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一体いったい

unit; therefore (question)

Noun · Adverbe

いったい何なんですか。

What the hell is that?

Example: Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Japanese: fengrim · French : fengrim

Parts of speech

Adverbe · Noun

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English dictionary meanings

(what) the heck
(why) in the world
(who) on earth
(where) the hell
(how) the hell
one object
one body
one unit
one group
one mass
one form
one style
one format
one fashion
one Buddhist image
one carving
one sculpture
one corpse
one sample (of bones, remains, etc.)
generally
in general
on the whole
by and large
for the most part
strictly speaking
in the first place
originally
to begin with

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