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Meaning of 筋が通る in Japanese
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筋が通る
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Kana Readingすじがとおる
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Romajisujigatōru
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Godan verb with `ru' ending
- Meaning
- to make sense; to be consistent; to be logical; to stand to reason; to be coherent
- Example sentence
- 全く筋が通っていない。私は酔っぱらって外で叫んでいたわけじゃない。 It's completely illogical. It wasn't as if I was shouting outside while drunk.
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Examples of 筋が通る, すじがとおる in a sentence
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全く筋が通っていない。私は酔っぱらって外で叫んでいたわけじゃない。
It's completely illogical. It wasn't as if I was shouting outside while drunk.
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屁理屈ばかり並べて、お前の言ってること全然筋が通ってないよ。
All you do is string together a bunch of farfetched ideas. I can't understand a word of it.
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What he's saying just isn't consistent.
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What he is saying doesn't make sense.
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What you are saying does not make sense.
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What you are saying does not make sense.
Verb Conjugations
Non-Past
- Plain
- 筋が通る
- Plain Polite
- 筋が通ります
- Negative
- 筋が通らない
- Negative Polite
- 筋が通りません
Past
- Plain
- 筋が通った
- Plain Polite
- 筋が通りました
- Negative
- 筋が通らなかった
- Negative Polite
- 筋が通りませんでした
Te
- Plain
- 筋が通って
- Plain Polite
- 筋が通りまして
- Negative
- --
- Negative Polite
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Passive
- Plain
- 筋が通られる
- Plain Polite
- 筋が通られます
- Negative
- 筋が通られない
- Negative Polite
- 筋が通られません
Kanji in this word
12 strokes
muscle, sinew, tendon, fiber, plot, plan, descent
On'Yomi: キン
Kun'Yomi: すじ
10 strokes
traffic, pass through, avenue, commute, counter for letters, notes, documents, etc.
On'Yomi: ツウ, ツ
Kun'Yomi: とお.る, とお.り, -とお.り, -どお.り, とお.す, とお.し, -どお.し, かよ.う