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いったい
(1) one object, one body, (2) what on earth?

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N3 VocabJLPT N3adv.
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Meanings

  1. (1) one object
  2. one body
  3. (2) what on earth?
  4. really?
  5. (3) generally
  1. (what) the heckadv.before an interrogative; forms an emphatic question
  2. (why) in the world
  3. (who) on earth
  4. (where) the hell
  5. (how) the hell
  6. one objectn.
  7. one unit
  8. one group
  9. one mass
  10. one formn.
  11. one style
  12. one format
  13. one fashion
  14. one Buddhist imagen.
  15. one carving
  16. one sculpture
  17. one corpsen.
  18. one sample (of bones, remains, etc.)
  19. generallyadv.also as ~に
  20. in general
  21. on the whole
  22. by and large
  23. for the most part
  24. strictly speakingadv.dated
  25. in the first place
  26. originally
  27. to begin with