Illustration: At a casual riverside picnic, a host holds up both open hands to a friend carrying spare cups, giving a rough estimate of the group size. Behind them, about ten friends cluster around a picnic sheet, with one partly hidden behind an open parasol and another just arriving from the path.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

そこら

sokora

or so, about that much

Follows a quantity, often after や. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. どんなに一生懸命いっしょうけんめいやっても、１週間しゅうかんやそこらでそれを仕上しあげるのは無理むりよ。

    However hard you try, you can’t finish it in a week or so.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 一年いちねんやそこらで英語えいごをマスターすることは不可能ふかのうだ。

    It is impossible to master English in a year or so.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 外国語がいこくごは１年ねんやそこらで身みにつけられるものではない。

    A foreign language cannot be mastered in a year or so.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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