ごくごく
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Meanings
1
usually written using kana alone
Emphatic adverbial intensifier, stronger than ごく alone. Used before adjectives and adjectival nouns to mean 'extremely' or 'very'.
This problem is extremely easy.
It was a very ordinary day.
Usage patterns
- ごくごく〈形容詞〉extremely ~ (before an adjective or adjectival noun)
This is an utterly ordinary family.
- ごくごく少数の〈物〉an extremely small number of ~
Only an extremely small number of people agreed with that idea.
- ごくごくまれにextremely rarely
Such a thing happens only extremely rarely.