Illustration: At an apartment breakfast table, a child reaches eagerly across the table for the last bread roll and knocks a cup with their elbow. The cup tips at the point of contact, sending milk over its rim and across the tabletop.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

こぼす

kobosu

to spill, to shed

Example sentences

  1. 彼女かのじょはインクを机つくえの上うえにこぼした。

    She spilt ink on the desk.

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  2. 私わたしはコーヒーをじゅうたんにこぼしてしまった。

    I spilled my coffee on the carpet.

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  3. かわいそうに少女しょうじょは涙なみだをこぼした。

    The poor girl shed tears.

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