〜 (まる) ごと

〜 (まる) ごと · 〜 (maru) goto · JLPT N2 · noun

whole

🍎 丸 maru = round, complete + ごと goto = and all of it, nothing left out

丸 (maru) means circle, and a circle has no missing piece, so it came to mean whole. ごと means including everything with it. A common example is りんごをまるごと食べる: eat the apple whole, core and all.

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