| The Japanese word | |
外国人 |
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| gaikokuzin | がいこくじん | |
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| foreigner | |
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彼の奥さんは外国人らしい。
kare no okusan wa gaikoku jin rashī. His wife seems to be foreign. | His wife seems to be a foreigner. |
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日本へ1人の外国人がきた。
nippon e ichi nin no gaikoku jin ga ki ta. There came to Japan a foreigner. |
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彼女は外国人と結婚している。
kanojo wa gaikoku jin to kekkon shi te iru. She is married to a foreigner. | She's married to a foreigner. |
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裕子は外国人と話したことがない。
yūko wa gaikoku jin to hanashi ta koto ga nai. Yuko has never spoken with a foreigner. |
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彼のなまりから外国人だとわかる。
kare no namari kara gaikoku jin da to wakaru. His accent suggests he is a foreigner. |
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私は外国人に英語を教えてもらった。
watashi wa gaikoku jin ni eigo o oshie te moratta. I was taught English by a foreigner. |
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彼の服装で外国人だということが知れた。
kare no fukusō de gaikoku jin da toyū koto ga shire ta. His dress betrayed the fact that he was a foreigner. |
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彼は外国人だったので、そのように扱われた。
kare wa gaikoku jin datta node, sono yō ni atsukawa re ta. He was a foreigner and was treated as such. |
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私達は外国人に会うと英語を使う傾向がある。
watashi tachi wa gaikoku jin ni au to eigo o tsukau keikō ga aru. We tend to use English when we see a foreigner. |
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彼女は外国人だったので外国人として扱われた。
kanojo wa gaikoku jin datta node gaikoku jin toshite atsukawa re ta. She was a foreigner and was treated as such. |
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彼が話すのを聞けば、彼を外国人と思うだろう。
kare ga hanasu no o kike ba, kare o gaikoku jin to omō daro u. To hear him speak, you'd take him for a foreigner. |
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彼女は恥ずかしくて、外国人に話しかけられない。
kanojo wa hazukashiku te, gaikoku jin ni hanashikake rare nai. She is ashamed to speak to a foreigner. |
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彼女は両親の願いに逆らってその外国人と結婚した。
kanojo wa ryōshin no negai ni sakaratte sono gaikoku jin to kekkon shi ta. She went against her parent's wishes, and married the foreigner. |
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私達は外国人に話しかけられることに慣れていない。
watashi tachi wa gaikoku jin ni hanashikake rareru koto ni nare te i nai. We aren't used to being spoken to by a foreigner. |
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私は突然外国人に話しかけられたのでめんくらった。
watashi wa totsuzen gaikoku jin ni hanashikake rare ta node menkuratta. I didn't know what to do because I was suddenly spoken to by a foreigner. |
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私は外国人なのでその冗談の意味が分からなかった。
watashi wa gaikoku jin na node sono jōdan no imi ga wakara nakatta. Being a foreigner, I couldn't catch on to the joke. |
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彼は外国人だから、そのように扱わなければならない。
kare wa gaikoku jin da kara, sono yō ni atsukawa nakere ba nara nai. He is a foreigner, and ought to be treated as such. |
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彼が話すのを聞けば、君は彼を外国人と間違うだろう。
kare ga hanasu no o kike ba, kimi wa kare o gaikoku jin to machigau daro u. To hear him talk, you would take him for a foreigner. |
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日本を訪れる外国人はみな日本の物価は高すぎるといいます。
nippon o otozureru gaikoku jin wa mina nippon no bukka wa taka sugiru to ī masu. Every foreigner who visits Japan says that prices here are too high. |
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| Examples sourced from tatoeba.org |

