Illustration: At a blind corner inside a small apartment building, two residents collide shoulder-first while coming from opposite directions. One carries a laundry basket, the other a bag of groceries. Their upper bodies recoil from the point of contact while their feet still point along their original paths.

ぶつかる

butsukaru

to bump into, to collide with

Example sentences

トラックが我々われわれの車くるまにぶつかった。
The truck bumped into our car.
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車くるまが木きにぶつかった。
The car bumped the tree.
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彼かれは木きにぶつかった。
He collided with a tree.
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