Japanese

Alternative forms

• 殆んど
• 幾ど

Adverb

殆ど ‎(hiragana ほとんど, romaji hotondo)

1. almost, nearly, mostly (everyone, everywhere, everything, etc.)

   彼 (かれ)はほとんど毎日 (まいにち)ここへ来 (く)る。

   Kare wa hotondo mainichi koko e kuru.

   He comes here almost every day.

2. few, hardly (any)
3. very nearly, close to, all but

Noun

殆ど ‎(hiragana ほとんど, romaji hotondo)

1. the most of something, the majority or greater part of something

   部長 (ぶちょう)、あのリンゴですが、その殆 (ほとん)どがもう腐 (くさ)っていたので捨 (す)てました。

   Buchō, ano ringo desu ga, sono hotondo ga mō kusatte ita no de sutemashita.

   Boss, about those apples, most of them were already rotten, so we threw them out.

References

1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
3. ↑ 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, ISBN 4-09-501211-0

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.