- seriousness; earnestness
本気の serious
本気で seriously; in earnest
- 本気になりさえすれば簡単にやれる
- If only you put your whole strength [heart] into it, you can do it quite easily.
- 君は本気でそう言っているのか
- Do you (really) mean it?
- 全く本気でこう言っているのです
- I am saying this in all seriousness.
- 冗談で言ったまでだ,本気にするな
- I was only joking. Don't take it so seriously.
- あの子は本気で勉強していない
- The boy is halfhearted about his studies.
- 彼は本気で怒り出した
- He flew into a genuine rage.
- 本気で勉強し出した
- He began to study in (real) earnest.
- 冗談はやめて本気で話そう
- Let's stop kidding around and get serious.