やけに

やけに · yakeni · JLPT N1 · noun

very

yakeni = yak + knee: a yak whose knee bends oddly is unusually strange

Really means 'unusually, oddly' or 'excessively', not 'sure'. Used before adjectives: やけに静かだ = oddly quiet. Sound: yak-eh-nee.

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