わざわざ (wazawaza)

expressly, specially, doing something especially rather than incidentally

  • JLPT N1
  • Pitch 1

Meaning

態々 (わざわざ, wazawaza) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “expressly, specially, doing something especially rather than incidentally”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 11

わざわざ 来きてくれてありがとう。

Thank you for coming all the way here.

君きみがわざわざそこにいく 必要ひつようはない。

You need not take the trouble to go there.

彼かれはわざわざ 私わたしを 手伝てつってくれた。

He went out of his way to assist me.

わざわざおいでにならなくて 結構けっこうです。

Don't bother to come to my house.