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頃

ころ

time, period; (as suffix -ごろ) about, around (a time)

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Examples

  1. 三時頃に電話します。

    さんじごろにでんわします。

    I'll call you around three o'clock.

  2. 子供の頃はよく川で遊んだ。

    こどものころはよくかわであそんだ。

    When I was a child I often played in the river.

  3. 彼女は夏頃から体の調子が悪かった。

    かのじょはなつごろからからだのちょうしがわるかった。

    She had been in poor health since about the summer.

  4. 私が着く頃には、みんな帰っているだろう。

    わたしがつくころには、みんなかえっているだろう。

    By the time I arrive, everyone will probably have gone home.

Common patterns

子供の頃
in one's childhood
今頃
about now, at this time
〜する頃には
by the time that ~

Memory tip

Attached to a time word it is read ごろ and means "about" (三時頃 = about three); standing alone as ころ it means "the days when". Remember 頃 for approximate time, ぐらい for approximate quantity.

Kanji in this word

  • 頃Not in the N5–N1 kanji lists

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