I Love Kanjiすなわち (sunawachi)
すなわち is a Japanese conjunction meaning “that is (to say); namely”. It is usually written in kana. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- すなわち
- Romaji
- sunawachi
- Word class
- conjunction
- Level
- JLPT N3 (unofficial)
Meaning
- that is (to say); namely; i.e.; or · conjunction · usually written in kana
- precisely; exactly; just; nothing but; neither more nor less · conjunction · usually written in kana
- if one does ..., then; in that case; then · conjunction · usually written in kana · as ...ば～; indicates that what follows is a natural consequence
- so; accordingly; thereupon; then · conjunction · usually written in kana
Example sentences
彼は非常に知識のある人、すなわち生き字引である。
He is a man of great knowledge, that is to say, a walking dictionary.
田森は、１９４５年すなわち第二次世界大戦が終わった年に生まれた。
Tamori was born in 1945, that is, when World War II ended.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Source: JMdict entry 1404100 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.