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Japanese
Etymology
Of 終 (tsui, “end”, noun) with the emphatic particle ぞ (zo).[1]
Pronunciation
Adverb
終ぞ • (tsuizo) ←つひぞ (tufizo)?
- (chiefly in the negative) (not) ever, at all
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- すぐうしろの松の木の枝に、ついぞ見たこともないような、美しい真っ白な着物が掛けてありました。
- Sugu ushiro no matsu no ki no eda ni, tsuizo mita koto mo nai yō na, utsukushī masshiro na kimono ga kakete-arimashita.
- Just behind on the branch of a pine tree hung a beautiful pure white kimono such has I had never seen.
Synonyms
- ついに (tsuini, “(not) ever, in the end”)
- いまだかつて (imadakatsute, “never before now”)
- 一度も (ichidomo, “even one time”)
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN