He checked the durability of the house before buying it.tatoeba
彼は永久に日本を離れた。
He left Japan for good.tatoeba
Real voices: how native speakers say it
These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.
オワコンと言われて久しいけど、なんとか踏ん張ってる状況
おわこんといわれてひさしいけど、なんとかふんばってるじょうきょうThey say it's dead, but it's somehow hanging on.
久しぶりに電車で座れた
ひさしぶりにでんしゃですわれたI was able to sit on the train for the first time in ages.
この芸人なんか久しぶりに見た
このげいにんなんかひさしぶりにみたI haven't seen this comedian in forever.