Verb

1. ; am, I'm.
2. ; (they) are, they're.

Usage notes

• The hiragana spelling (その) is preferred to the kanji spelling (其の), which is rarely used.

Prefix

1. that (demonstrative, near the speaker)

   私が読みたい本は、その本です。

   わたしがよみたいほんは、そのほんです。

   Watashi ga yomitai hon wa, sono hon desu.

   What I want to read is that book.

Verb

1. I make a noise, sound, resound.
2. I sound, utter, speak, express, call.
3. I cry out, call; sing; celebrate, praise, extol.

Inflection

There are the alternative forms: sonere, for the present active infinitive, sonāre, thus third conjugation forms exist in early Latin with sonit for sonat and sonunt for sonant in the present tense; there is also the alternative form sonātūrum for the future active participle sonitūrus.

Related terms

• sonipēs
• sonivius
• sonōrē

• sonōritās
• sonōrus

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