わざわざ

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わざわざ is an adverb that indicates that someone has gone "out of their way" to do something, or that someone has done something expressly for "X" purpose.

E.g. 遠とおくまでわざわざすみません。 "Thank you for coming all this way."

E.g. 今日きょうのためにわざわざ休やすみを取とってくれたんだね！ "You took time off just for today, didn't you?"

わざわざ can be used in either positive or negative contexts. The following is an example of a negative context わざわざ sentence:

E.g. こんな話はなしのためにわざわざミーティングを開ひらく必要ひつようはありません。 "There's no need (to go out of our way) to have a meeting just to talk about this."

Summary

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  わざわざ is an adverb that indicates that someone has gone "out of their way" to do something

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  わざわざ can be used in both positive and negative contexts