Japanese Dictionary
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Meaning of 持つ in Japanese
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持つJLPT 5
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Kana Readingもつ
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Romajimotsu
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- Godan verb with `tsu' ending
- Meaning
- to hold; to carry
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to possess
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Examples of 持つ, もつ in a sentence
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パソコンを持ってない人は、このMP3プレーヤー機能をフルに使いこなせません。
People who don't have a computer can't make full use of this MP3 player function.
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Keiichi, the tempura's done, so bring a plate.
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人が肉体を持ち、地上に生まれたからといって、地上のことを全て理解するわけではないのと同様に、死んだからといって霊的世界を全て理解しているわけでもないのです。
Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.
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王を得た麒麟もまた寿命を持たない生き物だが、この病ばかりは治癒の方法がない。
A qilin with a king too has no limit on its lifespan, but this illness alone admits of no remedy.
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Companions with the same aim, to carve out their own future, cooperate with each other.
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Whenever I go to a Japanese restaurant, I take the disposable chopsticks home with me.
Verb Conjugations
Non-Past
- Plain
- 持つ
- Plain Polite
- 持ちます
- Negative
- 持たない
- Negative Polite
- 持ちません
Past
- Plain
- 持った
- Plain Polite
- 持ちました
- Negative
- 持たなかった
- Negative Polite
- 持ちませんでした
Te
- Plain
- 持って
- Plain Polite
- 持ちまして
- Negative
- --
- Negative Polite
- --
Passive
- Plain
- 持たれる
- Plain Polite
- 持たれます
- Negative
- 持たれない
- Negative Polite
- 持たれません