Illustration: On a quiet residential shopping street in Japan, two friends wander side by side in casual clothes, carrying no shopping bags or work equipment. One strolls with hands loosely behind their back while the other drifts toward a closed shop's window to inspect a tiny ceramic frog.

JLPT N3adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

ぶらぶら

burabura

aimlessly, at a leisurely pace

Example sentences

  1. ちょっとその辺あたりをブラブラしました。

    I wandered around for a while.

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  2. 暇潰ひまつぶしに街まちをぶらぶらした。

    I strolled along the streets to kill time.

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  3. 彼かれらは海岸かいがんをぶらぶらと歩あるいた。

    They strolled along the beach.

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