Illustration: At a Japanese apartment's dining table, an adult proudly presents a newly assembled toy car, but one wheel has been attached flat against the roof instead of to the empty axle. A finished matching car beside it makes the correct arrangement visible without instructions.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

間ま違ちがう

machigau

to be wrong, to be mistaken

This sense commonly appears as 間違っている. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 番号ばんごうが間違まちがっています。

    I’m afraid you have the wrong number.

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  2. 彼女かのじょの名前なまえのつづりが間違まちがっていた。

    Her name was spelled wrong.

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  3. 私わたしが間違まちがっていました。

    I was wrong.

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Kanji in 間違

  • 間space; intervalOnカン・ケンKunあいだ・ま・あい
  • 違difference; differOnイKunちがう・ちがい・ちがえる

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