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何とか — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • somehow adverb By some means not specified or fully understood.
  • whatchamacallit noun An informal word for an object whose name you can't remember or don't know.

Senses

何とか is used for these senses in English:

  • somehow In one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means
  • whatchamacallit (slang) A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.

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