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何処か

どこか

somewhere; anywhere; somehow; in some respects

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Examples

  1. 夏休みに何処かへ行きましたか。

    なつやすみにどこかへいきましたか。

    Did you go anywhere during the summer vacation?

  2. 何処かで会ったことがありますね。

    どこかであったことがありますね。

    We've met somewhere before, haven't we.

  3. 彼の話は何処か嘘くさいと感じた。

    かれのはなしはどこかうそくさいとかんじた。

    There was something not quite believable about his story.

Common patterns

何処かへ行く
to go somewhere
何処かで
somewhere (at some place)
何処か変だ
something is off about it

Memory tip

Written どこか in practice; the kanji spelling appears mainly in older or literary text. The second sense modifies an adjective — 何処か寂しい means "somehow lonely", not "lonely somewhere".

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