よそ – vocab dash

よそ

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Meanings

Noun

No-adjective

1. another place; somewhere else; strange parts (Usually kana)

2. outside (one's family or group); someone else; other people (Usually kana)

Noun

3. not caring for; being indifferent to; taking little notice of; ignoring; neglecting (Usually kana, as 〜をよそに, 〜をよそにして, etc.)

Other spellings

余よ所そ他所よそ外よそ

Kanji in other spellings

Pitch accent

よそ

Used in vocabulary

looking away; looking aside; outsider's perspective; observer's view

Noun

going out; one's best clothes; formal (e.g. language); best (behaviour, manners, etc.)

Noun

going out; one's best clothes; formal (e.g. language); best (behaviour, manners, etc.)

Noun

reputation; respectability

Noun

another's eyes; other people's eyes; casual observer

Noun

outsiders; another person; other people; third party

Noun

Examples4

ここの人ひとたちはよそから来きた人ひとをみな嫌きらう。

These people hate all foreigners.

そればかりか、会かい社しゃの直ちょく営えい店てんの商しょう品ひんは、たいていよその店みせより高こう価かだったのです。

And not only that, the goods in the company shop were usually more expensive than elsewhere.

私わたしたちの製せい品ひんとよそのとを比くらべたら、私わたしたちのがはるかに質しつが良いいのがお分わかりでしょう。

If you compare our product with others, you'll see ours is far better in quality.

私わたしの兄あには、未み婚こんなので、所しょ帯たいを持もたず、奉ほう公こう人にんと一いっ緒しょによその家いえで食しょく事じをしていた。

My brother, being yet unmarried, did not keep house, but boarded with his apprentices at the home of another family.