Illustration: At a nature center activity table, a child has a large beetle photograph and a realistic beetle model arranged beside an open observation container. A living rhinoceros beetle has climbed out and now grips the child's sleeve, its legs wrapped around the fabric.

JLPT N2expressionLevel estimated by Bebop

そのもの

sono mono

itself, the very thing

Example sentences

知識ちしきそのものは目的もくてきではない。
Knowledge is not an end in itself.
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彼かれは親切しんせつそのものだ。
He is kindness itself.
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その仕事しごとは苦くるしみそのものだった。
The task was total agony.
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