損ねる – Vocabulary details

損そこねる

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

Kanji used

損

harmful loss

Pitch accent

そ

こね

る

Conjugations...Used in: 1901

Used in vocabulary (7 in total)

機き嫌げんを損そこねる

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

乗のり損そこねる

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

見み損そこねる

to miss seeing

4 more...

Examples (8 in total)

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.

トムからの電でん話わを取とり損そこねた。

I'd missed a call from Tom.

そういえば、さっきは本ほんを借かり損そこねちゃったわ。

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損そこねてしまった。

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損そこねていた。

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損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損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損そこねている。