Illustration: At a kitchen table in a Japanese home, a grandmother opens the central fold of a paper boat with both thumbs while her grandchild copies the exact movement beside her. The child's newly opened boat has just been placed in a shallow basin and floats upright.

JLPT N3conjunctionLevel estimated by Bebop

こうして

koushite

thus, in this way

Example sentences

  1. こうして私わたしはいつも魚さかなを料理りょうりする。

    This is how I usually cook fish.

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  2. こうして彼かれは成功せいこうした。

    Thus he succeeded.

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  3. こうしてその偉大いだいな帝国ていこくが生うまれた。

    This is how the great empire came into existence.

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