こんな

こんな · konna · JLPT N5 · na-adj

like this

ko (this, near me) + nna (kind of) = this kind of; cf. sonna, anna, donna

Part of the ko-so-a-do set: ko- marks things near the speaker, as in kore (this) and koko (here). Konna is a contraction of kono yō na, meaning of this manner. Swap the first syllable for sonna (such, near you), anna (that kind of), donna (what kind of).

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