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ついに • (tsui ni) ←つひに (tufi ni)?
- finally, at last
- そしてついに口を開いた。
- Soshite tsui ni kuchi o hiraita.
- Then she finally opened her mouth.
- ついに彼はやって来た。
- Tsui ni kare wa yatte kita.
- He finally came.
- (with a negative) in the end