あそこ

あそこ · asoko · JLPT N5 · noun

over there

a (far) + soko (there) = that place way over there, far from us both

Part of the ko-so-a-do set: koko (here, near me), soko (there, near you), asoko (over there, far from both), doko (where). The a- prefix marks distance from speaker and listener, as in are and ano.

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