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JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

疎そ外がい

sogai

to alienate, to exclude

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは社会しゃかいから疎外そがいされていると感かんじた。

    He felt alienated from society.

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  2. 試衛館時代から近藤に品行の事でいつも注意されていたようで、近藤はだんだん品行の悪い藤堂を疎外していったとされている記述もある。

    He seems to have been warned about his behavior by Kondo since he was a student at the Shieikan, and there is a description that Kondo gradually kept the ill-behaved Todo at a distance.

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

  3. 地域社会ちいきしゃかいからの疎外そがいが問題もんだいになっている。

    Alienation from the local community has become a problem.

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Kanji in 疎外

  • 疎alienate; roughOnソ・ショKunうとい・うとむ・まばら
  • 外outsideOnガイ・ゲKunそと・ほか・はずす

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