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Meaning of 違う in Japanese
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違うJLPT 5
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Kana Readingちがう
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Romajichigau
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- Godan verb with `u' ending, intransitive verb
- Meaning
- to differ (from); to vary
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to not be in the usual condition
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to not match the correct (answer, etc.)
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to be different from promised
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Examples of 違う, ちがう in a sentence
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危険物を飲み込んだ場合、飲み込んだものによって対処法が違います。
When you swallow a dangerous substance, what you need to do depends on what you swallowed.
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Obviously that's different for men and women.
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ウェブサイトのタグラインは、その企業が何を行っていて、競合他社とどこが違うのかがわかるようなものでなくてはならない。
The website's tagline has to let people know what that business does and how it differs from the competition.
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そうじゃない。性差別やら女性蔑視やら、そういうものとは関係なく、男と女は違うんだ。
That's not what I meant. I'm not being sexist. Men and women are just different.
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The lunch she brought to me was as delicious as rumoured.
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No, no. I mean to say that it has originality.
Verb Conjugations
Non-Past
- Plain
- 違う
- Plain Polite
- 違います
- Negative
- 違わない
- Negative Polite
- 違いません
Past
- Plain
- 違った
- Plain Polite
- 違いました
- Negative
- 違わなかった
- Negative Polite
- 違いませんでした
Te
- Plain
- 違って
- Plain Polite
- 違いまして
- Negative
- --
- Negative Polite
- --
Passive
- Plain
- 違われる
- Plain Polite
- 違われます
- Negative
- 違われない
- Negative Polite
- 違われません
Related Kanji
13 strokes
difference, differ
On'Yomi: イ
Kun'Yomi: ちが.う, ちが.い, ちが.える, -ちが.える, たが.う, たが.える