さぞ(かし) (sazo kashi)

surely; no doubt; certainly (empathetic guess)

Meaning & usage

さぞ(かし)expresses the speaker's confident inference about someone's feelings or a state, much like "I'm sure" or "must be." It precedes a conjecture phrase such as だろう or でしょう, and さぞかし is a slightly more emphatic variant. It carries an empathetic, often exclamatory tone.

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