その
その
hepburn sono
that (+noun, near listener)
Part of speech · determiner
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Examples
- そのカバンは私のです。That bag (near you) is mine.
- その時、雨が降りました。At that moment, it rained.
Collocations
そのカバン (sono kaban, that bag)その人 (sono hito, that person)その時 (sono toki, at that time)そのまま (sono mama, as it is)そのうち (sono uchi, eventually)
Mnemonic
その sono — adnominal form of the そ-branch. それ stands alone; その attaches to a noun. Temporally, "that time we just mentioned". そのまま = "as it is / unchanged"; そのうち = "before long, eventually". Maps closely to English discourse "that" (the X we were talking about).
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