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でなくてなんだろう (denakute-nandarou) meaning in japanese

💡Meaning

If … is not … then what is it?

📝Usage

Noun + でなくてなんだろう

📚Examples

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これが愛でなくてなんだろう。

⚠️Notes

A strong, rhetorical expression used to assert that something is indeed what it seems. "If this isn't ..., what is?" (e.g., これが愛でなくてなんだろう。 - If this isn't love, then what is?)