| The Japanese word | |
祖父 |
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| is pronounced | |
| sohu | そふ | |
| means | |
| grand father | |
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祖父が大事にしていた伊万里焼の皿は、ずっしりと重かった。
sofu ga daiji ni shi te i ta imariyaki no sara wa, zusshiri to omokatta. The Imari porcelain plate that my father cherished was quite heavy. |
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父の父は祖父、祖父の父は曽祖父、曽祖父の父は高祖父だが、高祖父より前の世代の呼称は決まっていない。
chichi no chichi wa sofu, sofu no chichi wa so sofu, so sofu no chichi wa kōsofu da ga, kōsofu yori mae no sedai no koshō wa kimatte i nai. The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather. |
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| Examples sourced from tatoeba.org |
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