そりゃあ
Japanese
Etymology 1
Contraction of either それ (sore, “that”) or そいつ (soitsu, “he, she, that one”) with the topic marking particle は (wa).
Alternative forms
- そりゃ (sorya)
Pronoun
そりゃあ • (soryā)
Etymology 2
Contraction of そう (sō, “so, like that”) and auxiliary verb だ (da) or variant such as や (ya) or じゃ (ja).
Adverb
そりゃあ • (soryā)
- (informal, regional) certainly, of course, well
- そりゃあ知らなかった。
- Soryā shiranakatta.
- Well you could have fooled me.
- そりゃあ知らなかった。
- (informal, regional) just like that, right
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- お父さんがうんと気張ってつくったから、そりゃあ、そりゃあ素晴らしいもんやったわね。
- Otōsan ga unto kibaritte tsukutta kara, soryā, soryā subarashii mon yatta wa ne.
- Father went all out like that, nicely nicely he made something wonderful, right.
- お父さんがうんと気張ってつくったから、そりゃあ、そりゃあ素晴らしいもんやったわね。
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