とやら
(To yara)
some kind of / (I hear) something like.
Connection rules
- ＋Noun + とやら; plain-form clause + とやら.
- ＋Vagueness / secondhand knowledge — the speaker doesn't fully know.
- ＋Common when referring to things by name without commitment: 田中さんとやら ('someone named Tanaka').
Examples
1.
田中さんとやらは、どこの人ですか。
Tanaka san to yara wa, doko no hito desu ka.
This Tanaka person — where is he from?
「some kind of / (I hear) something like」
2.
何とやらいう病気にかかったらしい。
Nanto yara iu byouki ni kaka ta rashii.
It seems he caught some kind of illness.
「some kind of / (I hear) something like」
Practice
I hear that a person named Sato came to visit while I was out.
留守中に___から電話がありましたよ。
Romaji also accepted