Components

Example details

 
あんな
さむ
よる
かのじょ
彼女
たしておく
べきなかった
You ought not to have kept her waiting on such a cold night.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of  (see also: こんな, そんな, どんな)
(click the word for examples and links)
2
1. cold (e.g. weather)  (opposite: 暑い)
2. uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull; weak; corny  (see also: お寒い)
(click the word to view an additional 1 reading, examples and links)
1
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
evening; night
(click the word to view an additional 1 reading, examples and links)
1
pronoun
1. she; her
(click the word to view an additional 1 meaning and 2 forms, examples and links)
2
to keep (a person) waiting
(click the word for examples and links)
1
auxiliary
1. should; must; that one ought to; to be done  (suf. to verbs; often written with kana only)
2. -able  (passive ending; often written with kana only)
(click the word to view an additional 1 meaning and 1 form, examples and links)
1
1. nonexistent; not being (there)  (see also: 亡い; often written with kana only)
2. unpossessed; unowned; not had
(click the word to view an additional 4 meanings and 1 form, examples and links)
Kanji
カン   さむ cold   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ice
キョウ   とも together   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
grass   
イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
katakana 'ha'; eight
roof   
ヤ   よる    よ night   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
go
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
dot   
lid
ヒ   かれ he   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
step
ヒ   かわ skin, leather   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
stick   
cliff
また again   
ジョ   ニョ   ニョウ   woman; female   おんな woman   め woman   
タイ   ま to wait   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ジ   temple   てら Buddhist temple   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
スン   inch
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
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.
×