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A collaborative corpus of sentences and their translations, contributed by volunteers. The example sentences on every subject page are theirs.

A few rows

Chosen from the data, not taken off the top.

  • 犬が好きです。

    I like dogs.

    Short enough to read on day one.

  • 君のせっかくの名講義は猫に小判だったね。

    Your wonderful lecture was pearls before swine.

    The pairs are translations rather than glosses, so an idiom comes back as an idiom.

What we hold

Sentences
232,731
Last brought in
3 days agoSep 1, 2026

What we take

  • Japanese sentences with English translations
  • Which kanji each sentence contains, so a character can find its examples

Terms

Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 France. Each sentence links back to its page on Tatoeba, where its contributor is named. CC BY 2.0 FR