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ころぶ

to fall down, to fall over

Reading

Readingころぶ

N3 VocabJLPT N3vi.

Meanings

to fall down
to fall over

to turn outvi.oft. as どう転んでも
to play out
to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism)vi.in early Japanese Christianity
to apostatize
to rollvi.
to tumble
(for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secretvi.archaic

Synonyms

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

これは転んでも、怪我はなかったということを、みんなに知ってもらうためでした。

これはころんでも、けがはなかったということを、みんなにしってもらうためでした。This was to let everyone know that even if I fell, there was no injury.

枯れた蔓が絡みつく藤棚、砂場のそばに寝転んだプラスチック製のシャベル

かれたつるがからみつくふじだな、すなばのそばにねころんだぷらすちっくせいのしゃべるA wisteria trellis tangled with dead vines, a plastic shovel lying by the sandpit.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

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