Illustration: Outside a neighborhood nursery, a parent lowers one knee directly onto the paving to tie a small child's loose shoelace. The other foot stays planted, with that knee raised, and the parent's torso remains upright enough to meet the child's eyes.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

ひざまずく

hizamazuku

to kneel

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしたちは跪ひざまずいて祈いのった。

    We knelt down to pray.

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  2. 跪ひざまずいてあの娘むすめに頼たのんだよ。

    And I begged her on my bended knees.

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  3. 彼女かのじょは教会きょうかいに入はいると、ひざまずいた。

    She knelt down as she came into the church.

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