Meaning of 奪う in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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奪うJLPT 3
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Kana Readingうばう
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Romajiubau
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- Godan verb with `u` ending, transitive verb
- Meaning
- to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
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Example Sentences
奪う, うばう used in context
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つい先日の列車事故においてはメーデーを出す間もなく、多くの方々が命を奪われた。
Only the other day in a railway accident, without the time to send out a mayday, many people lost their lives.
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The savage robbed me of my precious jewels and ran away.
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Masked men held up the passengers and robbed them of their money.
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The delinquents knocked him down and stole his wallet.
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The plane crash took 200 lives.
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The airplane has robbed travel of its poetry.
Verb Conjugations
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Te
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Kanji found in this word
rob, take by force, snatch away, dispossess, plunder, usurp
On: ダツ
Kun: うば.う
14 strokes
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