Illustration: In the narrow passage between a Japanese apartment kitchen and living room, a large sleepy cat lies stretched across the floor. A resident carrying a laundry basket carefully lifts one slippered foot over the cat, keeping the other foot planted on the near side.

またぐ

matagu

to step over, to cross

Example sentences

もう二度にどとこの家いえの敷居しきいはまたがない。
I’ll never set foot in this house again.
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彼女かのじょは小川おがわをひょいとまたいだ。
She strode over the brook.
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トムはメアリーを抱だいて敷居しきいをまたいだ。
Tom carried Mary across the threshold.
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