部
Components

Example details

 
びんぼう
貧乏
な
ひと
人
こそもっとも
わか
若
く
し
死
んだ。
It was the poor who died youngest.
Grammar and points of interest
こそ こそ
 
it is ~ that, ~ is the very (thing being emphasized), (for emphasis)
貧乏な人こそもっとも若く死んだ。
adverbs adverbs
 
貧乏な人こそもっとも若く死んだ。
Conjugations and inflections
  貧乏な is the inflected form of 'na' adjective 貧乏   ALL INFLECTIONS
  若く is the adverbial form of 'i' adjective 若い   ALL INFLECTIONS
  死んだ is the past form of godan verb 死ぬ   ALL INFLECTIONS
Words
び ん ぼ う 1
poverty; destitute; poor
(click the word to view an additional 2 forms, examples and links)
ひ と 0
noun
1. man; person
2. human being; mankind; people
(click the word to view an additional 5 meanings and 2 forms, useful expressions, examples and links)
particle
for sure (emphasize preceding word)
(click the word for examples and links)
も っ と も 3
Most common form: 最も
most; extremely
(click the word to view an additional 2 forms, examples and links)
わ か い 2
1. young; youthful
2. immature; green
(click the word to view an additional 1 meaning, examples and links)
し ぬ 0
godan verb, irregular nu verb, intransitive verb
1. to die; to pass away  (sensitive)
2. to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to look dead
(click the word to view an additional 1 meaning, examples and links)
Kanji
貧
ヒン   ビン   まずしい poor   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
分
ブン   ブ   フン   わける to divide, to distinguish   わかる to understand   わかれる to be divided   わかつ to share, distribute   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
刀
トウ   かたな sword   
ハ
katakana 'ha'; eight
貝
かい shellfish   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
目
ボク   モク   eye   ま-    め    
乏
ボウ   とぼしい poor, scanty   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
之
シン   これ    の of   
人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
若
ジャク   ニャク   わかい young   もしくは or   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
右
ウ   ユウ   みぎ right   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ten   じゅう    じつ    と    とう    
口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
艹
grass   
死
シ   death   しぬ die   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
歹
death
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
夕
セキ   ゆう night   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
タ
katakana 'ta'
一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
匕
さじ spoon   
Flashcards
Please LOG IN for free flashcards
More info on this sentence: Google Japan ⇗ Sentence translate
Problem with this example? Question or comment? Please CONTACT US.
Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard. You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly. For an overview, take the tour.
Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
×