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何なんとなく (nantonaku)

somehow or other, for some reason or another

  • JLPT N1
  • adverb
  • Pitch -1
  • #4580 most frequent

Meaning

何となく (なんとなく, nantonaku) is a JLPT N1 adverb meaning “somehow or other, for some reason or another”.

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Example sentences 4

パーティーに行いくのは何なんとなく気きが進すすまないな。

For some reason I don't feel like going to the party.

金が無くとも何ともない

I do not feel the want of money at all.

私たちは情熱をなんと早く無くし、怠惰な生活に何と早く流されて疲れてしまうことでしょう!

How quickly we lose our passion, and how quickly we drift into a lazy life and grow weary!

「否な否な野蛮ぢや」と畳みかけしに、「何とて夫(そ)れ程に申すにや」と推せしゆゑ、「実に文明ならば、未開の国に対しなば、慈愛を本とし、懇懇説諭して開明に導く可きに、左は無くして未開蒙昧の国に対する程むごく残忍の事を致し己れを利するは野蛮ぢや」と申せしかば、其の人口を莟(つぼ)めて言無かりきとて笑はれける。

When I kept insisting, 'No, no, it is barbaric,' he retorted, asking why I said so so strongly, so I said, 'If truly civilized, toward an uncivilized country they should base themselves on compassion, patiently admonish it and lead it to enlightenment, but instead of doing so, to do cruel and brutal things to an uncivilized and ignorant country for one's own profit is barbaric,' whereupon he pursed his lips and had nothing to say, which was laughable.

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