about, roughly, as a rule, approximately
Example sentences
彼はおよそ１０日間欠席した。
He was absent for a matter of ten days.
彼は、収入のおよそ十分の一を貧しい人に与えた。
He gave away about one-tenth of his income to the poor.
地球はおよそ５０億年前に生まれた。
The earth came into existence about five thousand million years ago.
More N3 vocabulary
- 宿inn, lodging
- ずっとconsecutively, throughout, a lot
- 撃つto attack, to defeat, to destroy
- 食物food, foodstuff
- 期待expectation, anticipation, hope
- 健康health, sound, wholesome