First opened Wednesday, May 14, 2008

こんな

flat (heiban)

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

such, like this

JLPT N5Commonpre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)和語 · Native JapaneseSound change

こんな is a contraction of この様な (kono yō na).

Taken apart

No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.

In a sentence

こんな所(ところ)出(で)よう！
I wanna get out of here!
Tatoeba #217350, translation #54659
こんなの信(しん)じない。
I don't believe this.
Tatoeba #2298302, translation #1887213

Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.

What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

“Contraction of この様(よう)な (kono yō na).”

Source: Wiktionary: こんな (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.
Sound change: The pronunciation shifted over the centuries.

Related in the dictionary

The words JMdict points to from this word's sense. A word that has opened links to its day; the others are named as JMdict writes them.

See also: あんなあんなsuch, like that
そんなそんなsuch, like that, that sort of
どんなどんなwhat, what kind of

Other words so far that share a part, a process or a layer with this one, closest first. Each tag says what is shared; nothing here is a claim beyond what the entries already show.

一昨日おととい
the day before yesterday
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese
上うえ
above (up, top, etc.), over, on top of
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese
重んじるおもんじる
to respect, to honor, to esteem, to prize
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese
ございますございます
to be (polite, to exist)
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese
魚うお
fish
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese
暦こよみ
calendar, almanac
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese

Also opened on May 14

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.