Illustration: Two friends walk uphill along a residential lane toward a house where a third friend waves from the open gate. Without stopping, one walker offers the other a segment of mandarin, and both laugh as the recipient tries to take it with shopping bags occupying both hands.

JLPT N2adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

道みちすがら

michisugara

along the way

Example sentences

  1. 私達わたしたちは道みちすがらずっと低速ていそくで運転うんてんしなければならなかった。

    We had to drive slowly all the way.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 天智天皇と藤原鎌足は請安の塾に通う道すがら蘇我氏打倒の計画を練ったと伝えられる。

    It is said that Emperor Tenji and Fujiwara no Kamatari planned to overthrow the Soga clan on their way to Shōan’s school.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 駅えきまでの道みちすがら、友人ゆうじんと話はなした。

    I talked with a friend on the way to the station.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 道

  • 道road-way; streetOnドウ・トウKunみち・いう

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