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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

互いに

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tagai ni

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Reciprocally/rɪˈsɪp.rə.kəl.i/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼らは互いに助け合っています。"

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2 senses
As adverb
  1. 1

    In a way that involves two people or groups doing the same thing for each other or exchanging something mutually.

    "Both countries agreed to trade goods and services reciprocally."
  2. 2

    In a complementary or inversely related manner.

    "The two variables are reciprocally related to one another."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin reciprocus (returning, alternating), moving through 16th-century Late Latin and French forms before entering English. The adverbial suffix -ly was added to denote an action, feeling, or relationship that is mutual or experienced by each of two parties toward the other.

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