そこねる – Vocabulary details

そこねる

Meanings

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.

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

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Conjugations...Used in: 600

Used in vocabulary (7 in total)

きげんをそこねる

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

乗のりそこねる

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

みそこねる

to miss seeing

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Examples (8 in total)

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.

結けっ局きょく昼ひるは食たべそこねてしまった。

In the end, I missed the chance to eat lunch.

私わたしは老ろう人じんの死し亡ぼうした日ひを聞ききそこねていた。

I had failed to ask on what day the old man died.

感かん心しんしない手しゅ法ほうではあるが、彼かの女じょのご機き嫌げんをそこねたくなかった。

It was not an admirable method, but I did not want to offend her.

また私わたしの言こと葉ばで彼かれの気き分ぶんをそこねたのではないかしら。

I wonder if what I said hurt his feelings again.

その大おおきな醜みにくい木きがその家いえの美び観かんをそこねている。

The big ugly tree destroys the beauty of the house.

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Meanings

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

Used in vocabulary (7 in total)

Examples (8 in total)