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なんとなく: somehow or other, for some reason or another — Japanese vocabulary

なんとなく means "somehow or other, for some reason or another". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

なんとなく

Reading
なんとなく · nantonaku
Translation
somehow or other, for some reason or another
Level
JLPT N2

Example

私はなんとなく彼の家を見つけた。

わたしはなんとなくかれのいえをみつけた。

Somehow or other I found his house.

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