Example Sentences

Over 148,000 parallel Japanese-English example sentences compiled by Professor Yasuhito Tanaka and his students at Hyogo University.

Search examples

• Search with English, e.g. don't cry
• Search with Japanese (not rōmaji), e.g. 泣く
• Search with kana, e.g. にならなくっちゃ
• Find use of different verb forms, e.g. 泣かないで
• Find proverbs, e.g. Don't cry over spilled milk

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Note: The Corpus is a useful and interesting collection of matched Japanese and English sentence pairs, however it cannot be regarded as containing natural or representative examples of text in either language. This is because of the way it was originally compiled and the artificial nature of the sources. Also it still contains a large number of errors and repetitions. It certainly should not be used for any statistical analyses of the text. While the Corpus appears to be adequate and useful as a source of examples of word usage, the user is advised to be cautious and critical. Read more.