そこねる – Vocabulary details

そこねる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to harm; to hurt; to injure; to wreck

ご機き嫌げんを損そこねてしまったみたいね。It seems I've upset you.

Auxiliary verb (1-dan)

2. to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)

そういえば、さっきは本ほんを借かり損そこねちゃったわ。Come to think of it, I missed my chance to borrow the book earlier.

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to displease; to offend; to hurt (a person's) feelings

to miss getting on (e.g. a plane)

to miss seeing

ご機き嫌げんをそこねてしまったみたいね。

It seems I've upset you.

トムからの電でん話わを取とりそこねた。

I'd missed a call from Tom.

そういえば、さっきは本ほんを借かりそこねちゃったわ。

Come to think of it, I missed my chance to borrow the book earlier.

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