Illustration: On a living-room floor in a Japanese home, an adult shares a large animal picture book with a small child. The adult pinches the outer corner of one page between finger and thumb, lifting it into a curved sheet halfway across the binding.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

めくる

mekuru

to turn a page

Example sentences

  1. 本ほんのページをめくる。

    I turn over a page of the book.

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  2. ページをめくってください。

    Turn the page, please.

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  3. 彼かれはぼんやりと雑誌ざっしのページをめくっていた。

    He was idly turning over the pages of a magazine.

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