Meaning of と言う in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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と言う
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Kana Readingという
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Romajitoiu
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
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- Meaning
- said; called thus
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Example Sentences
と言う, という used in context
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母ちゃんも同じ事いってたな。だからどうしたってんだよ。オレにゃ関係ない。
Mum said the same thing. But, so what? It's got nothing to do with me.
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An infinitive without a 'to' attached is called a bare infinitive.
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椎間板ヘルニアは背骨の間にある椎間板という軟骨が飛び出すものです。
Disk herniation is when cartilage, called 'intervertebral disk' and found between each vertebra, slips out.
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進化という科学的真理が反対しようもないほど確証されもので、実質的に論駁できない。
The scientific truth of evolution is so overwhelmingly established, that it is virtually impossible to refute.
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仮性近視というのは知ってましたが、まさか自分の子供が仮性近視になるなんて思ってませんでした。
I've heard of pseudomyopia, but I never thought my own child would come to have it.
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The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.
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