adverbial N2 common casualpolitewritten
一気に — in one go / all at once
一気に ・ いっきに
Meaning
- in one go / all at once / in a single burst — completing something in one unbroken effort
Key sentence
ビールを一気に飲んだ。
I downed the beer in one go.
Examples
階段を一気に駆け上がった。
I ran up the stairs in one burst.
たまった仕事を一気に片付けた。
I cleared all the backed-up work in one shot.
Easily confused with
See 一気に in real sentences
Jengo shows 一気に the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.
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