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子供 の ころ、 姉 は オレンジ より レモン の ほう が 好き でした。kodomo no koro, ane wa orenji yori remon no hou ga suki deshita.
Meaning
When she was a child, my older sister liked lemons more than oranges.
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Breakdown of kodomo no koro, ane wa orenji yori remon no hou ga suki deshita.
はwa
topic particle
ですdesu
to be
子供kodomo
child
がga
subject particle
Questions & Answers about kodomo no koro, ane wa orenji yori remon no hou ga suki deshita.
What does 子供のころ mean, and how is it built?
子供のころ means when someone was a child or in one’s childhood.
It is built like this:
- 子供 = child
- の = links the noun to the following word
- ころ = around the time of, in the period of
So X の ころ means around the time of X.
Examples:
- 学生のころ = when I was a student / in my student days
- 子供のころ = when I was a child / in childhood
Whose childhood does 子供のころ refer to here?
By itself, 子供のころ does not explicitly say whose childhood it is. Japanese often leaves that understood from context.
In a sentence like this, the listener figures it out from the surrounding situation or from the translation already given. Very often, English has to make this clearer than Japanese does.
So this is a good example of a general Japanese pattern:
- Japanese: often leaves subjects and possessors unstated
- English: often requires them to be stated
Why is it 姉 and not 私の姉?
