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Sentence #74929

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 fcbond fcbond December 13, 2012 December 13, 2012 at 10:44:40 AM UTC link Permalink

"テニスボール大の団子" is suitable for the translation of "tennis-ball-sized dumpling".
"大" /dai/ means "just the same size or about the size of something", and, in this case, no one cares whether the dumpling is exactly same size as a tennis ball or not, while saying "tennis-ball-sized".

If you say "テニスボールと同じ大きさ", it means "just the same size as a tennis ball".

(Thanks to Kuribayashi-san for the comment)

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➜ #328790In the blink of an eye, the tennis-ball-sized dumpling had disappeared.

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瞬くうちにテニスボール大の団子が消え去った。

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