Meaning

Primary

Forgotten Item

Alternatives

Something Forgotten, Forgotten Thing, Lost Property

Word Type

noun

Explanation

Remember how 忘れる is "to forget"? Well, a thing you've forgotten is a forgotten item.

Reading

わすれもの
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

You didn't learn this reading with the kanji , but you did learn it with the vocabulary 忘れる. What was (わす) that reading again? You can't remember! It's become a forgotten item!

Context

Context Sentences

単に忘れ物をしたことを非難してるわけじゃないんだよ。

I'm not blaming you just because you forgot to bring something.

コウイチの飛行機が成田空港に着いた時、コウイチは忘れ物に気づいたのでそのまま同じ飛行機でポートランドへと引き返しました。

When Koichi's plane arrived at Narita Airport, Koichi realized that he forgot something, so he returned to Portland on the same airplane.

今日何か忘れ物をしたような気がするんだけど、それが何だったかをどうしても思い出せないんだよな。

I feel like I forgot something today, but I just can’t remember what it is.

Kanji Composition