さえ

(Sae)

Used to emphasize an extreme example to imply that other cases are obvious.

Connection rules

忙いそがしすぎて、昼ひるご飯はんを食たべる時間じかんさえなかった。

Isogashi sugi te, hiru gohan wo taberu jikan sae naka ta.

I was so busy that I didn't even have time to eat lunch.

「Hectic workday」

この問題もんだいは子供こどもでさえ解とけるほど簡単かんたんだ。

Kono mondai ha kodomo de sae tokeru hodo kantan da.

This problem is so easy that even a child can solve it.

「Explaining a simple task」

He was so busy that he couldn't even read hiragana, let alone kanji.

彼はとても疲れていて、漢字どころか___読めなかった。

Romaji also accepted