Illustration: A walker carefully descends a steep stepped lane in a Japanese hillside neighborhood. The path rises behind their shoulders and continues downward toward closely spaced houses below.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

下くだる

kudaru

to descend, to go down

Example sentences

  1. 山やまを下くだったところに学校がっこうがある。

    There is a school down the mountain.

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  2. 彼かれは丘おかを下くだって行いった。

    He went down the hill.

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  3. 船ふねは水路すいろを下くだった。

    The ship sailed down the channel.

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Kanji in 下

  • 下below; downOnカ・ゲKunした・しも・くだる

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