飲む

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Kanji in this term

Verb [edit]

飲む (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana のむ, romaji nomu)

  1. to drink, to gulp, to swallow; to eat (soup)
    私たちはさじスープ飲む
    わたしたちはさじスープのむ
    Watashitachi wa saji de sūpu o nomu.
    We eat soup with a spoon.
    私はミルク飲んでいた。
    わたしはミルクのんでいた。
    Watashi wa miruku o nonde ita.
    I was drinking milk.
  2. (smoking) to smoke tobacco
  3. to overwhelm, to engulf
  4. to suppress, to keep down
  5. to accept something like a demand or a condition

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