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JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

かばう

kabau

to protect, to defend

Example sentences

  1. 世間せけんの非難ひなんから僕ぼくをかばってくれませんか。

    Will you screen me from public censure?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼女かのじょは自分じぶんの立場たちばを犠牲ぎせいにしてまで彼かれをかばったため、職しょくを失うしなう羽目はめになった。

    She went out on a limb defending him, and now she has lost her job.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これについては、川路かわじも薩摩出身さつましゅっしんであり、黒田くろだをかばったという見方みかたもある。

    There is also the opinion that Kawaji protected Kuroda because he was also from Satsuma.

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

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