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損そこなう
Meanings
Auxiliary verb (5-dan, う, transitive)
1. to harm; to hurt; to injure; to damage; to spoil; to mar; to ruin
Verb (5-dan, う)
2. to fail to do; to do amiss; to miss one's opportunity to do
after the -masu stem of a verb
3. to almost do; to come close to doing
after the -masu stem of a verb
Alt. forms
損そこなう
74%
そこなう
19%
損そこなう
5%
害そこなう
Kanji used
損
harmful loss
Pitch accent
そ
こな
う
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Conjugations...Used in: 1528
Used in vocabulary (19 in total)
to misjudge; to mistake; to misjudge (someone); to overestimate; to miss seeing; to overlook
to be badly made; to fail
to fail to die (after attempting suicide); to fail to kill oneself; to come close to dying; to be almost killed; to survive (when others died); to outlive others
16 more...
Examples (2 in total)
He failed to answer the letter.
Her good fame was greatly damaged by this.