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State & Condition

ぽつんと

potsunto

Standing alone, isolated

Describes something sitting all by itself in an empty space — a lone house on a hill, one person left behind, or a single item on a vast table. Conveys loneliness.

💡A lone tree in a field — 'A single tree stands potsunto in the empty meadow.'

Example

広い公園にぽつんとベンチがある。

A bench sits potsunto alone in the wide park.

Quiz yourself

One house stood ___ on the hilltop surrounded by nothing.

丘の上に家が一軒○○と建っている。

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