のだった

Japanese

Etymology

Compound of の (no, particle to nominalize) and だった (datta, past tense of だ (da, auxiliary verb of assertion)).

Phrase

のだった • (no datta) 

  1. used to explain the situation in somewhat exclamatory manner
    • 2001 [1886], katokt, transl., ジキルとハイド‎, translation of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson:
      しかしみなも認(みと)めるように、他(た)人(にん)には寛(かん)大(だい)だった。人(ひと)が不(ふ)始(し)末(まつ)をしでかしてひどく意(い)気(き)消(しょう)沈(ちん)していると、ときどきうらやましいとばかりに驚(おどろ)き、本(ほん)当(とう)に困(こま)っているときには非(ひ)難(なん)するどころか助(たす)けてやるのだった。
      Shikashi mina mo mitomeru yō ni, tanin ni wa kandai datta. Hito ga fushimatsu o shidekashite hidoku ikishōchin shite iru to, tokidoki urayamashii to bakari ni odoroki, hontō ni komatteiru toki ni wa hinan suru dokoro ka tasukete yaru no datta.
      But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.
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