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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

痛みを伴う

Pronunciation / Transliteration: itamio tomonau

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Painful/ˈpeɪn.fəl/
adjectiveCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #1450 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"その事故は非常に痛みを伴いました。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Causing or suffering from pain.

    "The injury was so painful that he couldn't walk."
  2. 2

    Causing distress or discomfort.

    "The painful memories of the past haunted her."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'painful', combining 'pain' (from Old French 'peine', from Latin 'poena' meaning penalty or punishment) with the suffix '-ful' (from Old English '-full', meaning full of). The word has historically evolved from denoting something causing penalty or distress to generally describing physical or emotional hurt.

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