なので
Japanese
Alternative forms
- (informal, contraction) なんで (nande)
Etymology
な (na, attributive form (連体形) of auxiliary verb だ (da) or copula particle used after the adjective verbs (形容動詞)) + ので (node, particle of resultative conjunction).
Phrase
なので • (na node)
- because, as, since, due to because
- Synonyms: だから (da kara), であるから (de aru kara)
- <ruby>雨<rp>(</rp><rt>あめ</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>なので<ruby>傘<rp>(</rp><rt>かさ</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>を<ruby>差<rp>(</rp><rt>さ</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>します。
- Ame nanode kasa o sashimasu.
- Since it's raining, I put up an umbrella.
- (colloquial, informal) so, because so, therefore [from late 20th c.]
- 雨です。なので傘を差します。
- Ame desu. Nanode kasa o sashimasu.
- It's raining. So I put up an umbrella.
- 雨です。なので傘を差します。
Antonyms
- なのに (na noni, contrastive conjunction)
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