go back

sakanoboru

meaning: go back

State

Feeling

Direction

Examples

この習慣しゅうかん、江戸えど時代じだいまでさかのぼるらしいよ。

kono shuukan, edo jidai made sakanoboru rashii yo.

Apparently this custom goes all the way back to the Edo period. casual

講師こうしは話はなしを十年前じゅうねんまえまでさかのぼりました。

koushi wa hanashi o juunenmae made sakanoborimashita.

The lecturer went back to ten years earlier in his talk. neutral

さかのぼる

sakanoborugo back (in time)G1

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