Illustration: At a neighborhood flea market, a distracted seller has accepted one small coin for a whole drawstring bag of glass marbles. The delighted buyer walks away hugging the bulging bag, while the seller looks from the solitary coin in his palm to his now-empty display tray.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

損そん

son

loss, disadvantage

Example sentences

  1. 我々われわれはその仕事しごとで損そんをした。

    We lost on that job.

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  2. 怒おこるのは損そんだ。

    It doesn’t pay to lose your temper.

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  3. 損そんはしないよ。

    You cannot lose.

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Kanji in 損

  • 損damage; lossOnソンKunそこなう・そこなう・そこねる

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