Illustration: At a small neighborhood bicycle repair shop, a customer has just settled onto a waiting stool after handing over a bicycle with a slipped chain. Their freshly poured tea still steams, and their jacket remains half removed.

ほどなく

hodonaku

soon, before long

Example sentences

彼女かのじょはほどなくやってきた。
It was not long before she came.
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彼女かのじょはほどなくもどるでしょう。
She will be back before long.
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ほどなくその音おとは消きえていった。
Soon the sound died away.
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