いつしか+noun , what does it mean?


In a Dragon Ball's novel, a paragraph says:

> しかし、 **いつしか** サイア人は、圧倒的な力を持つコルド大王に支配されていた。

This could be? :

> However, an unknown sayajin was taking control of Cold Great Kind who had an
> overwhelming power.

Thanks.




いつしか does not mean "unnoticed." It's essentially equivalent to いつか
("sometime"), but with greater emphasis on the idea of uncertainty. In some
cases, it means something like "at some point" or "at some time or other" (in
either the past or the future), while in others it conveys the sense of time
passing without one's being fully aware of it. As Aeon Akechi has noted in a
comment, it isn't really possible to translate the phrase you've quoted
without more context, but perhaps the 例文 on this page will help you get a
sense of the range of possible meanings:
[https://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/いつしか](https://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/%E3%81%84%E3%81%A4%E3%81%97%E3%81%8B)

Edited to add: Now that you've edited your original post to include the whole
sentence, it's a little clearer – though as 圧倒的を makes no sense, I'm guessing
there's a typo in either your post or your book. (It should be 圧倒的な).

I'm not at all familiar with Dragonball and had to use Google to find the
conventional English translations for コルド大王 and サイア人, but it looks as if the
sentence you have quoted would be something like "However, at some point in
time the Saiyans came to be ruled by King Cold, who had overwhelming power."
Presumably the preceding paragraph(s) have some information about what life
was like for the Saiyans in the halcyon days before this unfortunate state of
affairs came to pass.

As a final note, while I'm new to this site myself, I think in general it's
helpful if you avoid editing your posts without indicating that you have done
so, and how you have edited them – particularly if others have already
responded!




いつしか does not mean "unnoticed." It's essentially equivalent to いつか
("sometime"), but with greater emphasis on the idea of uncertainty. In some
cases, it means something like "at some point" or "at some time or other" (in
either the past or the future), while in others it conveys the sense of time
passing without one's being fully aware of it. As Aeon Akechi has noted in a
comment, it isn't really possible to translate the phrase you've quoted
without more context, but perhaps the 例文 on this page will help you get a
sense of the range of possible meanings:
[https://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/いつしか](https://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/%E3%81%84%E3%81%A4%E3%81%97%E3%81%8B)

Edited to add: Now that you've edited your original post to include the whole
sentence, it's a little clearer – though as 圧倒的を makes no sense, I'm guessing
there's a typo in either your post or your book. (It should be 圧倒的な).

I'm not at all familiar with Dragonball and had to use Google to find the
conventional English translations for コルド大王 and サイア人, but it looks as if the
sentence you have quoted would be something like "However, at some point in
time the Saiyans came to be ruled by King Cold, who had overwhelming power."
Presumably the preceding paragraph(s) have some information about what life
was like for the Saiyans in the halcyon days before this unfortunate state of
affairs came to pass.

As a final note, while I'm new to this site myself, I think in general it's
helpful if you avoid editing your posts without indicating that you have done
so, and how you have edited them – particularly if others have already
responded!

