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| Approximately (with a specific point of time). | About; around |
| 【Related Expression: くらい/ぐらい】 |
(ks). 鈴木さんは朝七時ごろうちを出る・出ます。
Mr. Suzuki leaves home at about 7:00 o'clock in the morning.
| Noun (time) | ごろ(に) | |
| 三時ごろ(に) | At about 3 o'clock |
(a). A:いつごろ北京に行きますか。 B:来年の六月ごろ行きます。
A: About when are you going to Beijing? B: I'm going there around June of next year.
(b). A:今朝は何時ごろまで寝ていましたか。 B:十時ごろまで寝ていました。
A: Until about what time were you asleep this morning? B: I was asleep until about 10 o'clock.
(c). 去年の今ごろは大雪でしたね。
About this time last year it snowed heavily, didn't it?
1. ごろ is used with a specific point of time. Thus, the following sentence is unacceptable.
2. Depending on the speaker's perspective, time expressions other than exact time expressions can be perceived as points in time. Thus, in Example (a), the month of June is a point in time from the speaker's viewpoint. In these cases, ごろ seems easier to use grammatically if there is some distance between the time of the event and the time of speech, as seen in the following examples.
【Related Expression】
ごろ is different from くらい/ぐらい 'about' in that the latter is used with specific quantity expressions. Thus,
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