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勿論

English translation: Of course

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Japanese term or phrase:勿論
English translation:Of course
Entered by: KNielsen

02:16 Mar 27, 2006
Japanese to English translations [Non-PRO]
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Japanese term or phrase: 勿論
Any idea? I feel like this should be fairly simple, but just can't seem to find a translation anywhere. Thanks.
KNielsen
Japan
Local time: 08:46
Of course!
Explanation:
It's the kanji for mochiron (もちろん).

HTH!
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KathyT
Australia
Local time: 09:46
Grading comment
Oh dear, is my face red. *Of course* it is! I guess one tends to get lazy/forgetful with words like this that are more commonly written in hiragana. (Same with my other question.) Thanks very much, and thanks also rasputin for the reference.
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5 +3Of course!
KathyT


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Of course!


Explanation:
It's the kanji for mochiron (もちろん).

HTH!

KathyT
Australia
Local time: 09:46
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 92
Grading comment
Oh dear, is my face red. *Of course* it is! I guess one tends to get lazy/forgetful with words like this that are more commonly written in hiragana. (Same with my other question.) Thanks very much, and thanks also rasputin for the reference.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Bart B. Van Bockstaele: Absolutely
5 mins
  -> Thanks (-:
agree  Troy Fowler: I find Jim Breen's word server great at looking up pronunciations: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
10 mins
  -> Thanks (-:
agree  Minoru Kuwahara: that's rare, and we Japanese translators are certainly advised not to use in translation, however, it literally says "of course", "naturally", "in fact", etc. in English. -
45 mins
  -> Thanks (-: Yes, very rarely seen in kanji, I agree!
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