王子さまは、王さまに別れの挨拶をして、旅に出ました。夕方、ある町をとおりにかかると、鐘が鳴っています。
What does ある町 mean? I don't see it, is it something like "The town he's in?"
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3The word should be in every dictionary.– user4032Sep 23, 2015 at 7:35
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2See japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/9951/… and japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/24181/…– virmaiorSep 23, 2015 at 7:35
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1It was no 有る, it was 或る which I just read from a comment. Totally would've never guessed that.– RnBandCrunkSep 23, 2015 at 21:49
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In that context ある means "one" or "some". ある町 means "some town".
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4To add to the answer, I want to point out that it is 或{ある}, not the normal 有る{ある}, so they're separate words that sound the same (and both are normally written in hiragana, which doesn't help).– BlaviusSep 23, 2015 at 20:43
In this context it means he was passing another town. So 'another' or 'some' may be an apt translation here.
