食う (くう) – to eat | Shirabe

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食くう

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Common N3

Pitch accent

Meaning

1

English · JMdict

to eat

お腹を空かせたその男は、食物をむさぼり食った。

The starving man devoured the food.
2

English · JMdict

to live;to make a living;to survive
3

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to bite;to sting (as insects do)
4

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to tease;to torment;to taunt;to make light of;to make fun of
5

English · JMdict

to encroach on;to eat into;to consume
6

English · JMdict

to defeat a superior;to threaten a position
7

English · JMdict

to consume time;to consume resources

この事業は金を食う。

This job eats money.
8

English · JMdict

to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)

主人に大目玉を食った。

The boss bawled me out.
9

English · JMdict

to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time

Kanji

食ショク eat, food

Forms

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Sentences

この事業は金を食う。

This job eats money.

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"Oh? Then, as I expected, I've been around longer than you. This year I'm 20-mumble years old." "What does that tell me?"

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犬いぬが腕時計うでどけいと扇子せんすを食くった。

The dog ate a watch and a Japanese fan.

Tatoeba

隣となりじゃまた犬いぬも食くわない夫婦ふうふ喧嘩けんかをしているよ。

The couple next door are fighting again.

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腹はらが空あいてたから食くったんだ。

I'm so hungry, I ate it.

Tatoeba

夫婦ふうふげんかは犬いぬも食くわない。

No one in his right mind wants anything to do with a domestic quarrel.

Tatoeba

彼女かのじょは彼かれの顔かおに平手打ひらてうちを食くわせた。

She smacked him across the face.

Tatoeba

彼かれは敵てきに不意ふい打うちを食くわせた。

He surprised his opponent.

Tatoeba

彼かれは食たべる必要ひつようはない食くい意地いじが張はっているだけだ。

He does not need to eat, he is just greedy.

Tatoeba

彼かれはクラブから締しめ出だしを食くっている。

He has been barred from the club.

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