Tonada

Japanese word

たち

In your course · Chapter 11
Part of speech
affix
Level
A2
Frequency
No. 65 in the course corpus

Meanings

  1. (plural, for people)
  2. long sword (as opposed to the shorter katana)
  3. tachi
  4. sabre-like sword worn on the hip with the blade facing down
  5. pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
  6. departure
  7. setting off
  8. start
  9. being used up
  10. being consumed
  11. being burnt out
  12. passage of time
  13. lapse
  14. rehearsal
  15. leading male role
  16. rising from a crouch to charge
  17. initial charge
  18. faceoff
  19. verb prefix conveying emphasis and sometimes formality

Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))

Sources and licences

  • Tonada course content (words, example sentences and their translations).
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