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VocabJLPT N1

total

NounSuru VerbTransitive Verb

Definitions

1. total
2. sum

This noun and する verb means a cumulative total, referring to an overall count or sum calculated across a period of time. It is commonly used in sports to describe a player's career statistics or cumulative scores. You'll also see it in financial or statistical reporting to indicate running totals.

Example sentences

Sentence 1

Honestly, keeping count of every apology in total is exhausting.

Sentence 2

On top of that, training participants have now exceeded five hundred in total.

Sentence 3

I've probably made the same mistake at least a hundred times all told.

Sentence 4

"Three hundred hours of studying total," he told me.

Sentence 5

Hey, how many points have we racked up in total?