particle N3 common casualpolitewritten
くらい — approximately
くらい
Meaning
- about / approximately ~ / to the extent of ~ — the same word as ぐらい (くらい is the unvoiced spelling)
Key sentence
駅まで十分くらいかかる。
It takes about ten minutes to the station.
Easily confused with
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Jengo shows くらい the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.
Study it in JengoSources Compiled with reference to A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar.