空で – vocab dash

空そらで

Meanings

Expression

1. off the top of one's head; from thin air

2. from memory

Kanji used

Composed of

sky; the air; the heavens; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling; (from) memory; (by) heart; …

Noun

at; in; when; by; with

Particle

Examples4

はい。これならそらで歌うたえます。

Yes. This one I can sing from memory.

それをそらで言いってください。

Please say it by heart.

生せい徒とたちはたくさんの詩しをそらで覚おぼえた。

The pupils learned many poems by heart.

何なん度ども聞きいたので、今いまではその詩しをそらで言いえます。

Having heard it so many times, I can recite the poem by heart now.