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すると
すると
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and, then
Suruto is する (suru, “to do”) plus と (to): literally “when doing [whatever came before], then [whatever comes after]”.
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In a sentence
するとあなたは幸せでしょう。
Then you will be happy.
すると、たまたま少女のおばあちゃんが通りかかる。
Along comes the grandmother and sees her granddaughter.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From する (suru, “to do”) + と (to, “when, whenever”, temporal particle). Literally, "when doing [whatever came before], then [whatever comes after]".”
Source: Wiktionary: すると (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.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.