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Meaning of 啄む in Japanese
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啄む
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Kana Readingついばむ
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Romajitsuibamu
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- Godan verb with `mu' ending, transitive verb
- Meaning
- to pick at; to peck at
- Example sentence
- ひとの声に似た不気味な鳴き声、漆黒の羽、死肉を啄む姿などから、鴉は不幸に舞い降りる不吉な鳥として世界に知られています。 A creepy cry that sounds like a human voice, velvet black wings, the image of tearing into dead flesh; crows are known across the world as an ill-omened bird that flies down with ill-luck.
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Examples of 啄む, ついばむ in a sentence
Verb Conjugations
Non-Past
- Plain
- 啄む
- Plain Polite
- 啄みます
- Negative
- 啄まない
- Negative Polite
- 啄みません
Past
- Plain
- 啄んだ
- Plain Polite
- 啄みました
- Negative
- 啄まなかった
- Negative Polite
- 啄みませんでした
Te
- Plain
- 啄んで
- Plain Polite
- 啄みまして
- Negative
- --
- Negative Polite
- --
Passive
- Plain
- 啄まれる
- Plain Polite
- 啄まれます
- Negative
- 啄まれない
- Negative Polite
- 啄まれません