からある・ からいる・ からする・ からのall of; as many as
After a number, it says the number is big, and that the true figure is that or more: "a good twenty kilos", "all of a million yen". The ending depends on what is being counted.
He went on up the mountain path with a good twenty kilos on his back.
Even used, that wristwatch costs all of three million yen.
How to form it
Number + からある/からいる/からする
からある for size, weight and distance, からいる for people, からする for a price.
Before a noun
Number + からの + noun
For anything counted: 三万人からの観光客, 百万円からの借金. It is the usual shape for people; からいる is the rarest of the four.
- Before it
- A number with its counter, big for the situation and usually round: 二十キロ, 千人, 百万円.
- Tone
- Impressed or daunted.
- Where you'll meet it
- Mostly in writing: novels, reportage, essays. Said aloud it tends to sound a little old-fashioned, and is heard more from older people.
- In everyday speech
- も: 二十キロもある荷物, 三百万円もする.
In use
We thought it could be moved by hand, but the rock weighs a good five tons.
The town has only ten thousand residents, yet on the day of the festival the tourists alone are said to number thirty thousand or more.
On the first day alone, upwards of five thousand visitors poured into the small regional museum.
This ring looks so plain, and it costs all of a million yen?
Close neighbours
What people say. It goes in the same place and says the number is a lot. から adds "or more".
This notebook cost five thousand yen?
以上N4
Also "that or more", with no feeling in it: the line drawn by a rule or a condition.
If you buy two or more books, shipping is free.
After a place, a person or a time, からの is the plain "from" before a noun. After a number it is this one.
I'm waiting for word from the company.
On a price list, から is where a range starts. Nothing is being called a lot.
Shoes at this store start at 3,000 yen.
Check yourself
1Which one fits?
その
Choose an answer to see why.
2In which sentence does からの say the number is big?
Choose an answer to see why.
More sentences
This factory works on enormous steel beams a good twenty meters long.
It is a small research facility, but its underground piping runs to a good five kilometers in all.
An island of three thousand people gets upwards of twenty thousand tourists in the summer alone.
The mass of rock the survey team found weighs a good two hundred kilograms.