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First opened Saturday, October 22, 2005

それぞれ

それぞれ

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each, every, respectively

JLPT N3Commonadverb (fukushi)noun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'和語 · Native JapaneseDerivationRendaku

Sorezore is a reduplication of それ (sore, “that”), with sore voiced to zore by rendaku.

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What Wiktionary says

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  • “Reduplication of それ (sore, “that”). The sore changes to zore as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”

Source: Wiktionary: それぞれ (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

和語 Native Japanese
Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
Derivation
A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.
Rendaku
The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).

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