Example Sentences

Over 178,000 parallel Japanese-English example sentences with readings and word definitions.

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Notice

Word readings shown in furigana are generated by a morphological analyzer software and are not verified by anyone, they can often be wrong.

The sentences cannot be regarded as containing natural or representative examples of text in either Japanese or English. Some examples clearly contain translations into Japanese from English sentences, and often do not represent the most natural way things are said in Japanese (overuse of pronouns, etc.).

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Based on the Tatoeba project, CC BY 2.0 licence.

Sentence decomposition and word readings generated with MeCab morphological analyzer.