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外がい国こく人じん
Meanings
Noun
1. foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
Kanji used
外
outside
国
country
人
person
Pitch accent
が
いこく
じん
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Used in: 1357
Composed of
outside of; not covered by
indigenous person; inhabitant of a country; local; native; local lords and samurai; daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
Composed of
foreign country
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
Used in vocabulary (20 in total)
foreign worker
foreign (exchange) student; international student
foreign tourist
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Examples (63 in total)
She is married to a foreigner.
We aren't foreigners.
The hotel is full of foreigners.
The greater part of the guests were foreigners.
The audience were all foreigners.
Foreigners admire Mt. Fuji.
There came to Japan a foreigner.
I'm often mistaken for a foreigner.
His wife seems to be a foreigner.
That company is managed by a foreigner.
It is difficult for foreigners to master Japanese.
Can foreign students join this club?
This rule is applied to foreigners only.
What does "resident alien" mean?
Are there a lot of foreigners in Armenia?
Yuko has never spoken with a foreigner.
Not a few foreigners like Japanese food.
Making friends with foreigners is interesting.
I have two foreign friends.
Now we see more and more foreigners.
A lot of foreigners visit Japan every year.
I have never been spoken to by a foreigner before.
Is that rule applicable to us foreigners?
Don't make fun of foreigners' mistakes in Japanese.
He is a foreigner, as is evident from his accent.
Most foreigners learn to like Japanese dishes.
The embassy denied political asylum to foreign refugees.
It is difficult for foreigners to get used to Japanese meals.
Being spoken to by a foreigner, I did not know what to do.
He is a foreigner, and ought to be treated as such.
Many foreigners come to Japan for work.
Until now, I've never been spoken to by a foreigner.
The foreigner soon got used to Japanese food.
The foreigner speaks Japanese fairly well.
This textbook is intended for foreign students.
I saw a group of foreigners on my way to school this morning.
Thousands of foreigners visit Japan every year.
Foreign tourists in this country are numerous.
How fluently that foreigner speaks Japanese!
He has a slightly foreign appearance.
Her English was impeccable, I didn't think she was a foreigner.
I found the hotel crowded with foreign tourists.
In that country I was a foreigner and was treated as such.
A foreigner asked me where the station was.
She went against her parents' wishes and married the foreigner.
We tend to use English when we see a foreigner.
Some famous foreign runners entered that race.
Some people took hostile attitudes toward the illegal aliens.
The foreigner speaks Japanese as if it were his native language.
If I were a foreigner, I probably wouldn't be able to eat raw fish.
The government is expelling illegal aliens as part of a crackdown.
That foreigner spoke Japanese as if it were his native language.
Recently, the number of foreigners working or studying in Japan has increased.
It is difficult for foreign students to speak English well.
Among the guests invited to the party were two foreign ladies.
During the colonial period, the place was rather exclusionary, admitting only foreign residents.
Here, I'll confine this discussion to why many foreigners enjoy sumo.
Some Japanese are concerned about how their country looks in the eyes of foreigners.
We are all foreigners in other countries.
My parents are opposed to my sister marrying a foreigner.
They employ foreigners because Japanese workers are in short supply.
Foreigners who live in Japan are judged according to Japanese laws.
Every foreigner who visits Japan says that prices here are too high.