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読む、讀む、訓む よむ yomu

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  1. Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to read
  2. Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
  3. Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
  4. Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
  5. Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
  6. Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to count; to estimate
    see: サバを読む
  7. Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

Kanji in this word

read

Example sentences

彼は文学評論の本を読んでいる。
kare ha bungaku hyouron no hon wo yon de iru 。
He is reading a book of literary criticism.
彼女がその本を読み始めたと思ったらすぐに、誰かがドアをノックした。
kanojo ga sono hon wo yomi hajime ta to omoxtsu tara sugu ni 、 dare ka ga doa wo nokku shi ta 。
She had hardly begun to read the book before someone knocked at the door.
彼は読んでしまったらその本を私に貸してくれると言っている。
kare ha yon de shimaxtsu tara sono hon wo watakushi ni kashi te kureru to ixtsu te iru 。
He says that he will lend me the book when he is done with it.
彼は読めません。
kare ha yome mase n 。
He can't read it.
彼は読むための本がほしい。
kare ha yomu tame no hon ga hoshii 。
He wants a book to read.
彼は読むことも書くこともできない。
kare ha yomu koto mo kaku koto mo deki nai 。
He can neither read nor write.

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