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Meaning of 覗く in Japanese
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覗く, 覘く, 窺く, 臨くJLPT 2
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Kana Readingのぞく
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Romajinozoku
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- Godan verb with `ku' ending, transitive verb
- Meaning
- to peek (though a keyhole, gap, etc.)
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to look down into (a ravine, etc.)
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.)
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.)
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- Parts of speech
- Godan verb with `ku' ending, intransitive verb
- Meaning
- to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.); to peek through (sky through a forest canopy, etc.)
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to face
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Examples of 覗く, 覘く, 窺く, 臨く, のぞく in a sentence
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被写体に気づかれないようにそぉっとカメラを取り出し、ファインダーを覗く。
I quietly take out my camera, so as not to be noticed by my photographic subject, and peek through the finder.
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The neighbor popped his head up over the wall for a moment.
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Looking into the room, I found nobody there.
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She looked out through the hole.
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She looked in at the show window.
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He was looking through a microscope.
Verb Conjugations
Non-Past
- Plain
- 覗く
- Plain Polite
- 覗きます
- Negative
- 覗かない
- Negative Polite
- 覗きません
Past
- Plain
- 覗いた
- Plain Polite
- 覗きました
- Negative
- 覗かなかった
- Negative Polite
- 覗きませんでした
Te
- Plain
- 覗いて
- Plain Polite
- 覗きまして
- Negative
- --
- Negative Polite
- --
Passive
- Plain
- 覗かれる
- Plain Polite
- 覗かれます
- Negative
- 覗かれない
- Negative Polite
- 覗かれません
Related Kanji
臨
JLPT 1
18 strokes
look to, face, meet, confront, attend, call on
On'Yomi: リン
Kun'Yomi: のぞ.む