Illustration: At a neighborhood bakery counter, the morning clerk steps out through a narrow opening as the afternoon clerk squeezes inward to take over. Both have one hand on opposite sides of the same counter stool, making the change of occupant clear.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

入いれ替かわる

irekawaru

to change places, to be replaced

Example sentences

  1. 例外れいがいとして人間にんげんの魂たましいと動物どうぶつの魂たましいが入いれ替かわっている事ことも有ある。

    Exceptionally, human spirit and animal spirit replace each other.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. そのため、短期間たんきかんで住職じゅうしょくが交代こうたいしたり、2つの寺院じいんの間まで住職じゅうしょくが入いれ替かわるということもある。

    Therefore sometimes there is a change in the chief priest in a short period of time or exchange of a chief priest between two temples.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. ここは毎月まいつきお店みせが入いれ替かわる。

    The shops here change every month.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 入替

  • 入enter; insertOnニュウ・ジュKunいる・いれる・はいる
  • 替exchange; spareOnタイKunかえる・かえ-・かわる

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