Frequency rank: 12,442. – 12,472. (for form そこ: 88.)
- there (place relatively near listener)word usually written using kana alonesee also どこ, ここ and あそこ
- there (place just mentioned); that placeword usually written using kana alone
- then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised)word usually written using kana alone
- youarchaism
pronoun
Forms
Generated definitions (experimental)
- there (place relatively near listener)
- there (place just mentioned); that place
- then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised)
- you
This is used to refer to a place that is relatively close to the listener.
This is used to refer to a place that was just mentioned or known from the context.
It is used to refer to a time or situation that was just mentioned or brought up.
I went to a restaurant yesterday. That's where I had delicious food.
Indicates "you" in formal or respectful contexts.
Generated collocations (experimental)
そこ其処にいく行くto go thereそこ其処であう会うto meet thereそのちかく近くのそこ其処that place nearbyしごと仕事をするそこ其処the place where you workそこ其処のじじょう事情the circumstances thereそこ其処にいる居るto be thereそのとき時,そこ其処にいた居たat that time, (I) was thereあのそこ其処that place over thereそこ其処のもんだい問題the issue thereそのはなしをした話をしたそこ其処the place where that story was told
Example sentences
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After that, I left, but then I realized that I forgot my backpack at their house.
It may be that the happiness awaiting us is not at all the sort of happiness we would want.
It is up to you to decide whether we will go there or not.
I hate those spiders. They're always there to freak me out when I'm cleaning.
"Say, you, the lady over there." "Eh?" "Could you give me a bit of advice?"
There Akai joins them and it becomes a free-for-all in front of the finish line.
However, that involved a mountain of previously unconsidered problems.
"I rather like heights. You know, in my last life I must have been ... an aeroplane?" "Usually that would be 'bird' there."
"Certainly if someone is _that_ beautiful you'd draw back from approaching her." "Thought you'd agree."
If you can translate the subject and object then after that it isn't so difficult.
Packed into wooden fishing boats like sardines, the immigrants undergo the dangerous voyage there.