Meaning of そんな in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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そんなJLPT 4
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Romajisonna
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)
- Meaning
- such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of
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Example Sentences
そんな used in context
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A Japanese would never do such a thing.
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She's asking how that's possible.
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You should have refused such an unfair proposal.
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Thinking about those sort of things, I watched "Duck Soup" again.
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I want to disappear somewhere! I tend to feel like that in sultry summers.
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実際はそんなことあるわけないが、釘を刺すにはちょうどよさそうだ。
There's no way something like that would really happen, but it seemed just right to drive the point home.
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