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すごい

amazing, great, terrific; terrible, dreadful

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Examples

  1. 今すごい名案がうかんだぞ。

    いますごいめいあんがうかんだぞ。

    I've just come up with a great idea.

  2. 昨日はすごい雨だった。

    きのうはすごいあめだった。

    The rain yesterday was terrible.

  3. 彼の日本語はすごく上手になりましたね。

    かれのにほんごはすごくじょうずになりましたね。

    His Japanese has got really good, hasn't it?

Common patterns

すごいですね
that's amazing
すごく〜
really ~, very ~
ものすごい
tremendous

Memory tip

The old sense was "eerie, dreadful", which survives in すごい雨 (awful rain); today it usually means "amazing". The proper adverb is すごく — すごい早い is casual slang, fine among friends but not in writing.

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