彼は曽て京都に住んでいた。
He formerly lived in Kyoto.
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Example Sentences for 曽
Kanji 曽, meaning formerly, appears in 8 Japanese example sentences with translation.
This page groups example sentences to show how kanji 曽 appears in context, how the reading behaves, and how the translation maps to the usage.
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そんなことは曽て聞いたことがない。
I have never heard such a thing.
これは曽てない大事件だ。
This is an unprecedented major incident.
曽祖父は九十歳まで元気だった。
My great-grandfather stayed healthy until he was ninety.
曽祖母の話をもっと聞きたかった。
I wanted to hear more stories from my great-grandmother.
曽根崎には心中が多いと聞きました。
I heard there were many double suicides in Sonezaki.
木曽川はしばしば日本のライン川と呼ばれている。
The Kiso River is often called the Rhine of Japan.
父の父は祖父、祖父の父は曽祖父、曽祖父の父は高祖父だが、高祖父より前の世代の呼称は決まっていない。
The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather.