なので
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Japanese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (informal, contraction) なんで (nande)
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- because, as, since, due to because
- (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[edit]
- なのに (na noni, contrastive conjunction)