段階 (Dankai) is a Japanese noun meaning “stage, step, phase, level”.
Meanings
- nounstage; step; phase
- nounlevel; rank; grade; gradation
- nounorder
- nounstairs
Examples
病気はまだ初期の段階です。
The disease is still in the primary stage.
建設工事の第一段階は終わった。
The first phase of construction has been completed.
通常の睡眠は２つの段階からなる。
Normal sleep is made up of two phases.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).