Word Meaning 存する

そんする sonsuru

存する is read as そんする (sonsuru) and means to exist.

Meaning

English

  1. to exist

Reading

Kana

そんする

Romaji

sonsuru

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 9 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 121479 Priority T

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

存じる

ぞんじる

to know

存じ上げる

ぞんじあげる

to know (someone)

存在

そんざい

existence

存否

そんぴ

(whether) existent or non-existent

存知

ぞんじ

knowing

存続

そんぞく

continuance

存分

ぞんぶん

to one's heart's content

存立

そんりつ

existence

存亡

そんぼう

life or death

存命

ぞんめい

being alive

存生

ぞんじょう

being alive

存分に

ぞんぶんに

to one's heart's content

Example Sentences

10

He is the greatest living artist.

It is the oldest wooden building in existence.

Refrigerators help to preserve food.

Milk has to be kept at a relatively low temperature.

Elephants are the largest land animals alive today.

If it were not for water, no living things could live.

The contents of the four registers are preserved by the called subroutine.

There seems to be little agreement as to how to preserve the evidence in such cases.

The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.

The interdependence of thought and speech makes it clear that languages are not so much a means of expressing truth that has already been established, but a means of discovering truth that was previously unknown. Their diversity is a diversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world.