ところ

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Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ところ – see the following entries.
3
a place, a scene, a site; an address
a figurative place that facilitates or promotes something; a point in time or state of affairs
a state of being
(after a plain verb) about to
(after a verb in the past tense) just
(after a verb in the progressive ている) indicates the current state, or how you have progressed so far in a chain of actions
(after a verb in the past tense) at that point in time, upon
(literary, calque of Literary Chinese (suǒ)) Attaches to verbs to form noun phrases, meaning the object of that verb.
Alternative spelling
野老
Synonym of 鬼野老 (onidokoro, Dioscorea tokoro)
Alternative spelling
トコロ
(This term, ところ (tokoro), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as ところ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ところ.)