First opened Sunday, November 25, 2007
だから
だから
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so; therefore
Dakara is だ (“to be”) plus から (“because”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
だから何なの？
So what?
新世界だからな。
It's a whole new ball of wax.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “だ (“to be”) + から (“because”)”
Source: Wiktionary: だから (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.