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頃ごろ
Meanings
Adverb
Noun
Suffix
Usually written in kana
1. (approximate) time; around; about; toward
ごろ when used as a suffix
2. suitable time (or condition)
3. time of year; season
Alt. forms
頃ころ
70%
ころ
24%
ごろ
4%
コロ
1%
比ころ
Kanji used
頃
around that time
Pitch accent
ご
ろ
Used in: 4956
Used in vocabulary (21 in total)
about this time
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
normally; habitually
18 more...
Examples (72 in total)
It's about time you got the tea ready.
She has been ill since about summer.
I left around 2:30.
I'll pick you up around 2:30.
He came at about two o'clock.
I'll call you up around eight this evening.
I'll call you around five o'clock.
I go to bed about ten.
I will pick you up around six.
As a kid, I could sleep anywhere.
I read The Great Gatsby when I was in high school.
I used to play with dolls a lot when I was a little girl.
I went swimming a lot when I was a child.
It may rain around noon.
It's about time for the train to arrive.
It will have stopped raining by the time he comes back.
We know the time when we were poor.
When we were small, everything seemed so big.
My elder sister was a delinquent in junior high school.
The accident happened on Sunday at about 3:00.
Letters are delivered here about noon.
Tom was kind of cute when he was a kid.
Most dinner parties end about eleven o'clock.
I was hungry, so I ate lunch at about 11 o'clock.
When I was a boy, I was addicted to reading detective stories.
When I lived in Boston, I often ate out.
I learned to tap dance when I was a young girl.
It will be dark by the time he gets there.
Sally recalled the days when her grandma was strong and healthy.
She comes home at about six as a rule.
The fog began to disappear around ten o'clock.
When the money runs out, there'll still be one month left.
I usually get home around seven o'clock.
It gets dark about half past five these days.
I arrived in Kobe around two-thirty.
I used to play tennis when I was a student.
When I was at high school the subjects I liked were geography and history.
I liked studying French in high school.
I used to stay up late when I was a high school student.
I often slept on that bench when I was homeless.
Tom was a bit shorter than I was when we were in junior high school.
Tom loved writing poems when he was a teenager.
How about around 3:00 p.m. on February 28th?
It will be late autumn when you get to London.
Tom was your boyfriend when you were in high school, wasn't he?
When I was a boy, I often read a book in bed.
I remember reading that book when I was a student.
Two of his children had died when they were babies.
Autumn is just around the corner. It's about time the weather started cooling off.
I would often visit the museum when I lived in Kyoto.
By the time you get out of jail, she'll probably have gotten married.
I used to keep a diary in English when I was a student.
As a rule, he arrives at the office about eight-thirty in morning.
Dinner will be ready by the time you have finished your work.
I like this song. When I was a student, I often used to hum it to myself.
The cottage reminded me of the happy times I had spent with her.
During the bubble, people dreamed of a life of leisure.
When she was a student, she went to the disco only once.
By the time you get home, all the cherry blossoms will have fallen.
When I was a student, I used to go to that pizza parlor.
About dinner time, Rev. King was on the balcony outside his room.
Ah, I want to go back to being zero years old.
I've been playing American football since I was 13 years old.
I moved to England from Germany when I was nine.
He'll be here around four o'clock.
I met him once when I was a student.
She was a young girl about your age.
I passed by your house about 10 last night.
The family moved from their native Germany to Chicago around the year 1830.
He could swim across the river when he was in his teens.
I'm making about four times as much myself as when I first hired Tony.
In the beginning, man was almost the same as the other animals.