Meaning of 居る in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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居るJLPT 5
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Kana Readingいる
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Romajiiru
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- Ichidan verb, intransitive verb
- Meaning
- to be (of animate objects); to exist
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to stay
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- Parts of speech
- Ichidan verb, auxiliary verb
- Meaning
- (after the -te form of a verb) verb indicating continuing action or state (i.e. to be ..ing, to have been ..ing)
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Example Sentences
居る, いる used in context
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Oh, there's a butterfly!
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I lived for more than a month in Nagoya.
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この空港は新千歳空港ほど便数が多くないので、送迎デッキから見ても最初は飛行機がいませんでした。
This airport doesn't have as many flights as New Chitose Airport and even looking from the observation deck at first there were no planes.
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女性に彼氏がいるかいないかの探りを入れるベストな方法が有れば教えてください。
If there's a good way to sound out whether a woman has a boyfriend or not please tell me.
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女性に彼氏がいるかいないかの探りを入れるベストな方法が有れば教えてください。
If there's a good way to sound out whether a woman has a boyfriend or not please tell me.
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Furthermore, even after the company information session, we sometimes hold company tours.
Verb Conjugations
Common conjugated forms
Non-Past
Past
Te
Passive
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